The age-herald., 1900-06-01
NEWS IS SUPPRESSED Committee Left to Administer
 City ProviSionaIIy. B0ER FORCES MARCH EASTWARD No Estimate as to the Number Who Were Fighting Hamilton and French
 but the Burghers Retired
 With Loss
B0ER FORCES MARCH EASTWARD

London, June 1-(9:25 a. m.)-Belated messages from Pretoria confirm the re- ports of the departure of President Kruger with his cabinet and staff officials Tues day night and the selection at a meeting of citizens of a committee to administer the city provsionally.
 Since these telegrams left on Wednesday nothing apparently has reached Lourenzo Marquez by telegraph from Pretoria. Pos- sibly the wires have been cut. Possibly the Boer censorship at some intermediate point intercepts telegrams.
 Although the war office has not received a word about it no one in London harbors the idea that the Boer capital is not already in the hands of the British or about to be. The possession of Johannes burg at all events. Lord Roberts has telegraphed, is a fact. States Attorney Shuts did not depart with President Kruger but remained in Pretoria The present seat of the Boer government, ac- cording to dispatch from Lourenzo Marouez dated yesterday is Middieourg' but it will probably be shifted further out.
 The Boers lately confronting Lord Rob- erts appear to have gone eastward also towards the Lydenburg region The de- | lenders of Laigns Nek when their position becomes too perilous will probably trek northward toward Lydenburg When this concentration takes place there will be possibly 200O men who may hold out for ! time.
 | The press dispatches from the head- quarters of Lord Roberts give no estimate as to the number of Boers who were fght- ing General French and General Ian Ham, ilton. but they all agree that the Boers re- tired and that the British casualties were slight. MT. Battersby. in dispatch 10 the Morning Post from Germiston, dated May 30, says
 "The enemy fought a rear guard ac- tion. retiring from the south to the north of the town with their pompoms and ara tillery in the morning, and w1thdraWing their riflemen through the town in the afternoon We captured nine engines ana over a hundred wagons"
 Another correspondent, telegrapnlnS Irom Germinston the same day, says:
 s'I learn that the Boers are massing SIX miles south of Pretoria for a new ana desperate stand with a front or tweiVe miles"
 Other rumors in the camp of Lord Rob- erts are that President Kruger Is i'll az I.ydenburg and that the ammunition of the Boers is running short. M. II. Dono- hoe. the correspondent of the Daily Chron" icle, was captured yesterday. Krueer's Probable Fate , Some discussion is going on in London as to what will be done with President Kruger if he is captured. One idea is that he Will be sent to St. Helena, and that he Will i be tried for treason. The Daily Express | says:
 .Mr Krugers London agent has invested | f14o GOO of the presidents money in land 1 and mines. This took place before the war broke out and to this fact may be ascribed the failure of the Transvaal authorities to blow up the mines.'
 The Times says:
 Any further resistance the Boers may 1 offer will be futile. The collapse of the l Transvaal as military state may be re- l garded as complete. Threats of obstinate guerilla warfare need not be taken more seriously than the explosive menace or resistance at Johannesburg and Pretoria. "The formal annexation Of the TransVaal will speedily follow. The war Is rapidly l approaching its close"
 Five thousand fresh troops will embark for South Africa within the next few days.