The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-09
BUTLER TAKES
FORWARD STEP
Forces Succeed in Capturing
Van Wyke'S Hill.
HOPES LAING'S MEX
TO BE UNTENABLB
Warren, Rumble and Plumer
Advance on Burghers.


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London, June 9, 8:15 a. m.-The war
office has received the following dis
patch from General Butler;
yellow Boo@. Farm, June Son
June 6 General Talbot with the Tenth
brigade and the South African I.i~ht
Horse seized Van Wyke hin. The en-
envy made some resistance. and a good
zeal or sniping occurred. Our casual
ties were about four killed and thirteen
wounded.
During tht day and the following we
got TWO ~ and two 12-pounder naval
guns on to Van Wyke hill and two 3
men guns on TO the southeastern SPUR
q lnkeWelo. Under cover. Of their fire.
General EiiIdyard today assaulted all
,he spurs OF the berg between Botha's
pass and Inkewelo
The attack. which was we'll Manned
by Hildyard ar1 carried out with i'm
Ihehse dash by the troops, for whom
no mountains were too steep, outfiank-
60 the enemy who were forced to retire
from their very strong position.
Jhlnk 5Ve did not have any casual
ties, and hope have obtained a posi-
slon from which 1 can render Laing's
Mex untenable."
A dispatch from Hammonia. Orange
RIVER Colony, says that General Run
die made a strong demonstration
aSalhst re Boer positions. employing
9UO OF eral BTabant's Queenstown
Mounted A,ifies, two guns and the Cane
Mounted Infantry, under Colonel Dali
seJly. Inc Beer outposts were driven
pack ana their lager was located. but
the troops returned without a battle.
General Warren, with a strong force.
including the Canadian artillery. is
reaching north through GriouaIan
west He encamped at Campbell on
thursday, no opposition being offered
Numbers of the Beers are bandins in
thelr arms to the British commander.
a dispatch from Mateking. dated
tuesday, May %, says; Colonel Plu-
hef occupied Zerust yesterday without
opposition. This district is regaining it's
normal conditions. Supplies are arriv-
ing daily"
Roberts Keeps Silent.
Lord Roberts has communicated
nothing for three days, nor permitted
the correspondents to wire what is go
ing on. LOndon's inference is that he
IS resting, although he is possibly dis
posing his army for a reach after Com
mandant General Rotha.
Some kilograms filed a week ago are
only now arriving. Among these are
spirited descriptions of the fighting at
EIandsfontein. According to one of
them the streets were filled with
women and children. Rifle shots could
be heard everywhere. The British
soldiers would stop firing and join in
the chase after chickens. The burgh-
ers surrendered to any one. Kaffirs
went about lOOting the Jewish stores
and mounted infantry galloped hither
and thither.
Lord Roberts army has a new song.
It runs thus:
It belongs to Queen Victoria"
We're marching into Pretoria,
1t belongs TO Queen Victoria
me Daily Express has the following
from Pretoria dated Wednesday:
The LOCO prisoners who were de-
ported from Waterfall were told that
they were about to be given I'D to
Lord Roberts. They entrained cheer !
fully and were conveyed to Nooit Ged- !
ache. instead of Pretoria.
General Louis Botha with a rear
guard of 1000, left Pretoria during the
night. The British advance guard on /
entering was upon the very heels of :
the retiring Beers. Botha has sworn
to carry on the war in the noun /
tains'
MiddlebuTg is said to be full of Boer /
refugees and wounded A British
column is at Bremersdrop, Swasiland.
The British at Beira are moving into
the interior in detachments of 200 ,
daily.
G. V. Fiddes. imperial secretary to i
the high commissioner, with a part of |
Sir Alfred Miners staff, left Cape
Town Tuesday evening for Pretoria,
q hnf fe1r1
ent of the Daily News thinks, to ar
range the annexation details.
Complains of Military System.
Harold G. Parsons, federation dele
gate from western Australia, writing
to the papers to protest against the
treatment given to the wounded Can
says:
The invalid Canadians at Shorn-
oliffe camp, returned from the front,
complain that they are badly fed, un-
lealthily crowded and refused a fur
ough. / have it on indisDutable
authority that it is the practice of the
war Office to administer the British
volunteers and for all I know, the
regular army, by means of regulations
drafted and Issued in great part on no
better authority than that of its pro-
noted second class clerks. Such a
delegation of authority, which is I'M
as well as unbusiness-
ike, is in itself enough to show that
he whole war Office from top to bot
-Om must be reformed if not recon-
stituted after the war"
The Daily Chronicle says that Lord
has investigated the COM
plants of the men and that the mat
.er has been settled satisfactory, fur
oughs being granted.