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DULLER REPORTS PROGRESS
FINDS THE ENEMY IN QUITE
LARGE NUMBERS In FRONT
OF HIM
VITAL LINE OF ROAD Is CUT
Must BE Repaired Rapidly, as the
Field MarshaEs Men VIII
Re in Need of
Supplies.

LONDON, June II, $3.50 a. m.-The Beers
have torn up twenty-one miles Of Lord
Roberts vital line Of railway between
America Siding and Roodeval 1t is a bold
raid and vexatious, but it does not dis
quiet the military authorities as yet, for
they expect Gen. Kelly Kenny to drive off
the marauders and reopen the line
The rapidity of the advance Of Lord
Roberts cannot have permitted him to
have accumulated large reserve Of ste .es
Therefore interruption of the railway
even for week, must embarrass the
army, and must bring the forward opera
tions to a standstill Nothing has been
heard from Lord Roberts for three days
This raid on the enemy, the strenuous op-
position to Gen. Rumble and the nimble
escape of Commandant Gen. Botha's di-
vision have forced the war office observ-
ers to the reluctant conclusion that the
war is not yet over, although even the
occasional hopeful Boer sympathizer can
not see how the Beers can do anything to
change the result.
GEN. BULLER'S LOCATION.
Gen. Butler is in Boer territory Dis
patches of correspondents with him filed
yesterday at sunset describe the corps
as camping at Galonseil close to the point
where the frontiers Of the Free State, ,"the
Transvaal and Natal meet
THE British marched eight miles yes
terday," says a Reuter- correspondent,
without encountering any opposition.
The Beers, who had one gun, withdrew
under heavy artillery fire to a ridge just
past the camp"
This long range running sl1irmish Will
doubtless be renewed this morning. Gen.
Butler is expected to make rapid progress
now, and to throw the weight of 20001
men into Lord Roberts Transvaal combi-
nations.
The fighting on June G, in which there
were fewer than twenty casualties was
kept up all day by musketry and artillery.
The British attacking line, three miles In
length, made its way amid the precipitous
hills. A Boer gun on Spitzkop fired .shrap
mel rapidly at a range of 400 yards at the
British right flank, but every shell was
buried in the ground before bursting The
defensive power of modern weapons seems
less effective in rough country than upon
the level, where level spaces can be COW
cred by fiat trajectories.
BOERS AT BETHLEHEM
Gen. Rundle's and Gen Brabant's divis-
ions are still at Hammonia, in the Ficks-
burg district The latest intelligence
from their headquarters Is that the Beers
are determined to fight to the bitter end.
They are concentrating 1000 men around
Bethlehem. The country between them
and Gen. Rundle is mountainous and re-
III 1T,
ingly difficult for military operations
Gen. bundles plans are to prevent the
Beers getting past him southwark.
Maj. Wood, of Rundle's staff, rode to q
Boer outpost on June and announced
that Pretoria had been occupied by the
British How the Beers received this
news is not recorded. Altogether 600
Beers have surrendered to Gen Rundie.
Gen. Hunters advanced guard has oc-
cupied Ventersdcrp, 100 miles southwest
of Pretoria. This took place on June Z.
Gan. Pumer's column is on the Glands
river northwest of Pretoria. The British
are sending Getachments right and left t.
accept the surrenders of commanders,
horses, cattle and forage and to overaWe
the sparsely settled country Thus far
only one small commando has been heard
Of commando at Tail Basoh.
Gen Hunters immediate objective is
Potchefstroom. This town and Rusten-
burg are the largest towns west of
Johannesburg. 1t is reported that
Potchafstrocrn is ready to submit. Gen.
Hunter has warned all burghers that if
the telegraph is cut behind him he will
send back and burn the houses near the
line
The Dutch in Cape Colony appear to
have split, a majority of the Afrikander-
bund being displeased' by the unwilling
ness of Mr.. Schreiner, the cape premier,
to go the full length of the proposed op-
position to the British.