The age-herald., 1900-06-04
NO DIRECT NEWS
 FROM PRETORIA
Nothing is Known of the Recent
 Operations.
CORRESPONDENCE STOPPED
Many Stories Filter Through Lorenzo Marques-P Passengers from Pre- toria Say the City is in
 Condition of Chaos

London, June A. a. m.-There is no di- rect news from Pretoria of later date than l Thursday evening. General Frenchs cav airy were then at Irene, eight miles south of Pretoria, and firing was heard there Lord Roberts message about secondary op- erations elsewhere and the situation at
 Johannesburg, dated at Orange Grove, a
 farm four miles northeast of Johannesburg
 show that on Saturday at 9:1O p. m. he was
 25 miles from Pretoria.
 The correspondents with Lord Roberts have not got through line about the oper- l ations after the occupation of Johannes | burg Official messages continue to come
 through; but press telegrams are held up,
 probably to avoid their giving even hint l as to what be the pending operations. From the other side there filters through Lourenzo Marques many statements, some
 contradictory, others obviously improbable, but all purporting to be facts. Passengers arriving at Lourenzo Marques Saturday, direct from Pretoria, say that the capital was preparing to surrender when they left Thursday. The forts were dismantled. The Boer guard at Komatipoort searched all trains and turned back most of the fugi- tives, among them des rting foreigners, who
 were striving to reach neutral soil. Pretoria in a state of Chaos Immense Boer conveys of provisions are between Pretoria and Middleburg. Fifteen
 trains are sent daily to Machadasdoran with supplies for Lydenburg.
 Pretoria is pictured by the refugees as in state of indescribabe confusion and chaos. The populace are dismayed and the British are expected hourly.
 Some foreign attaches have arrived at
 Lourenzo Marques to communicate with
 fbltp Nfe-f f@,. ArIn frI IAAHrn
 they consider that organized war, on the
 Transvaal side, is at an end, Flying among the Boers are reports that the
 British have been beaten back at Lindley with heavy loss, that the main attack on Elandsfontein failed and Lord Roberts was forced to retire to Klipsriverburg; that a provision train had been captured. A revival of the Boer fighting power east of Lord Roberts advance, although fruitless, is a symptom that the Boers are not yet crushed In General Bundles at- tack the entrenched Boers seven miles east of Senekal May 29 the British did not see a Boer all day, completely were they | screned. The British infantry did not get within 1000 yards of their rifemen.-- The 1S2
 losses wired by Lord Roberts were suffer- ed by the Grenadiers and Scots guards
 while advancing over level on which the l grass had been burned The British in | Khaki were a conspicuous target against 1 the black background. zf.rsf
 Rundle Withdrew His Force l General Rundle withdrew his whole force | at sundown to Senekal, having succeeded | in drawing the Boers from Lndley, allow | ing the threatened force to get away safe l ly. The Boers sent to the British for med l ical help, saying that Commandant Devil | Hers was seriously wounded. General | Rundle sent doctor with a bottle of 1 champagne and his compliments, as well | as message that he would release all the l Boer prisoners at Senekal.
 In the advance of the Grenadiers, Col l onel Lloyd led in the face of a deadly fire. | He was hit, but struggled on, only to be disabled by another bullet. Lieutenant | Murray of the filling, cried, Forward, | Grenadiers.' The blinding smoke of the l veldt hampered the operations Lieuten- ant Lloyd Seymor offered to go back to | direct the artillery, but was wounded. The order to retire was given and executed un- | der a screen.
 In the Indian mail landed at Dover Sat | urday was bag of dispatches from Pre- | toria, including some from the Transvaal
 | government to its agents abroad. The des-
 | tination of the bag was Naples, but it was
 | landed at Alden by German steamer | through mistake and was shipped with | the Indian mail to NBrindisi, where it was 1 taken up by the English authorities.