Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-11
BoERs RETREAT BEFORE BuLLER.
General Roberts Communications
Seriously Cut Above krOOnstad.

General Roberts Communications
Seriously Cut Above krOOnstad.
The Ion.lon war Office has received the
following dispatch from Sir Redvers Bull
Ter:
HEADQUARTERS IN NATAL.June 10
With reference to my telegram of June s:
We halted yesterday to get our trains up
the pass which is very steep. ! find the
eremy were about 2ttD strong, in a very
carefully prepared position. which they
must have heen very disheartened not to
have held longer than they did. They have
all retired about twcuty-siX miles to the
northwest.
Il find our casualties were more than I
first Thought They one officer
wounded ana Two men killed and thirteen
wounded
Gen. Sir Foresticr- Walker wires to the
WIZ office from Cape Town, under date OF
June TO- follows:
Information received from natives ear
" yesterday Saturday reports the enemy
in three columns. near Honing Spruit.
''The railroad has been almost complete
" destroyed between America and Roode-
VAL
Gen. Forester Walkers dispatch Is not
altogether rcasSuring. 1t means that the
Eoers have Torn up twenty-one miles OF
Lord Rohe-tS' vital line of railway be-
tween America siding and Roodeval t is
a bold raid and vexatious. but it does not
disguict the military authorities yet, for
tEey expect Gen. kelly-Kenny to drive off
the marau.l-Ts and to reopen the lines.
Roberts short of Stores.
The rapidly of the advance of Lord
Roberts cannot have permitted him to
emulate large reserves of stores. There
fore an interruption of the railway. even
for week. must emharaSs the army.
and may bring the forward operations to
standstill.
Nothing has been heard from Lord Rob
erts for three days. This raid on the rail
way. the strenuous opposition to Gen.
Rumble. and the nimble escape of Com
mandant General BotLa's division have
forced the war office observers TO the reluc
tant conclusion that the war is not yet
over although even the occasional civilian
Beer sympa:h Zer cannot see how the Beers
will be abe to do anything to change the
result.
General Fuller is in Bocr territory. Dis
patches Of correspondents with him. filed
yesterday 1T sunset, describe the corps as
camping at G&nsolei. close to the point
where the frontiers of the Free State the
TransvaaI and Natal meet.
THE British marched eight miles yes
ter,Iay,' says Reuter- correspondent, he
fore encountering any opposition. The
Beers. who had one gun. withdrew under
heavy ordnance fire, to a ridge just ahead
OF the camp
This lons-range running skirmish will
doubtless he renewed this morning. General
Butler is expected TO make rapid progress
and TO throw the weight of 2O.OOo men
into Lord Roberts Ira nsvaal combinations.
The Fighting June @.
The fighting on June 6. in which there
were fewer than twenty casualties.
kept up all day long by musketry and artil-
lery. The British attacking line. three miles
In length. made its way amid the precipi-
tous hills. A Boer gun on Spitzkop fired
glraDppl rani1ly a of 400 a
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 levels. where wide spaces be
cred with fiat ira jectores.
Gen BUNDLES and Gen. Brabant's divi-
sions are still at Hammonia in the Ficks-
burg district. The latest intelligence from
their headquarters is that the Beers are de-
termined to fight TO the bitter end. They
are concentrating 1000 men around Beth
lehem. The country between them and
Gen Rumble is mountainous, and resembles
northern Natal in being exceedingly difficult
for military operations. Gen BUNDLES
present care Is to prevent the Beers getting
past him southwark. Major Wood of Run
dies staff. rode to a BOer outpost on June.
and announced that Pretoria had been
occupied by tho British How the Beers
ceiv-d this news IS not recorded Altogeth-
DE
Gen. Hunters advance has occupied Ven
tersdorp. Ion miles southwest of Pretoria
This took place on June Z.
Gen. PIumer'~ Position.
Gen. Plumers column is the Glands
river. northwest of Pretoria The British
are sending detachments right and left TO
accept the surrenders of commanders.
horses. cattle and forage and to overawe
the sparseiy settled country. Thus far only
one small command has been heard Of a
commando at TailbaSCh.
Gen. Hunters immediate objective is
fotchefStroOm. This town and RuStenburg
are the largest towns west of Johannes
burg 1t is reported that Potchefstroom is
ready 10 submit. Gen. Hunter has warned
all burShers that if the telegraph is cut be-
hind him he Will send back and burn the
houses near the line.
Inc Dutch in Cape Colony appear to have
split. a majority of the Afrikander bInd
being displeased by the unwilingness of
Mr.: Schreiner. the Cape premier to go the
fun length of the proposed opposition 10
the British.