The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-15
BOTHAELUSlVE
GOT AWAY FROM LORD ROBERTS
WITHOUT MUCH TROUBLE.
stood for Two Days I'm the Hills Near
Pretoria and Then With
drew with Guns.
NONE OF HIS MEN CAPTURED
THOUGH THE BRITISH HAD PARTLY
SURROUNDED THEM.
Only Two Burghers Killed and Ten
wounded According to Pres
ident Kruger's Report.
GENERAL BULLER WAITING
HIS ARMY CAMPED NEAR THE
LAING'S MEX TUNNEL.
Must De Repaired and Supplies Sc
cured Before He Can Advance
Only Two Burghers Killed and Ten
Wounded According to Pres
ident Kruger's Report.
GENERAL BULLER WAITING
HIS ARMY CAMPED NEAR THE
LAING's MEX TUNNEL.
Must be Repaired and Supplies Sc
cured Before He Can Advance
Dispatches from Roberts.

LONDON, june 10, S.oU a. m--l nat Noih-
mandant General Louis Botha should have
been able to stand for two days against
Lord Roberts and then to retreat without
losing any guns or having any Of his men
captured is taken to mean that he has a
force which the British must still reckon as
formidable when acting defensively. The
pacification of the whole of the Transvaal.
especially the wide spaces. far from rail-
ways, is looked on as a business requiring
months rather than weeks.
Meanwhile, everything goes we'll for the
British arms A Boer bulletin, issued June
u, at Machadodorp. says: Both wings Of
the federal forces were touched by the ad-
vancing enemy at 10 a m. yesterday east
Of Pretoria Fighting continued until dark
The enemy, though in overwhelming num-
bers, were checked along a line OF thirty
six miles and the burghers succeeded In
driving back their right wing five miles.
Two burghers were killed and ten
wounded"
Another Machadodorp announcement Is
that the first regiment of General Buffers
force to attack Almonds mex was "anni-
hilated;" but, as the British were in over
whelming force, the burghers were COM
PEELED to abandon the mex.
A dispatch from Lourenzo Marques, dated
yesterday, says: President Kruger is hold
ing on to his gold and issuing paper notes
from press In his executive car. The Boer
governments coin stock is exhausted and
the officials are now paying out plain gold
discs unstamped. Some who have declined
to accept notes have taken their salaries in
gold bars. The Boer government is still
paying out much gold in that way"
Two steamers arrived at Lourenzo Mar
| ques yesterday, bringing several thousand
| tons OF supplies consigned to Portuguese
| merchants, but destined for the Beers. One
| hundred Americans, Frenchmen. Germans
| and Hollanders have arrived there by var
| ious steamers, en- route for the Transvaal.
| Mr.. Grove. the British consul general, has
large stocks of clothing for the British
| prisoners, but he will not forward these
| until he gets assurances that the Beers
| will not take them for their own use.
General Butler will be unable to advance
/ further until he gets supplies. He will
| probably wait until the tunnel has been
| cleared. Nearly every farmhouse his troops
| passed flew white flag. The British took
| nothing without paying for it, and a brisk
| business was done in milk, eggs, bread an1
chickens by thrifty housewives, who were
| pleased to get so much English money. One
woman whose husband and two sons have
been fighting. said: You British are un-
like our people. They took my horses in ex-
change for sheep and mealies, and made
me make butter, which they never paid for
1 am sending to have my men come home
/ at once,
| Usually the first question a Boer woman
| puts is: "Will my husband be shot If he is
captured?" One young man was pulled
from under a bed and he went on his knees
begging the British patrol not to shoot
| him.
General Rumble had sharp skirmish at
| Ficksburg on June L. The Beers had been
| aggressive along the whole Fickshurg-
| Senekal line, menacing Ficksburg in force
The British outposts retired to the VIII
| lage. General Rumble held the attention of
the Beers in front with two guns, while
| yeomanry were sent around to their rear
| and drove them off with loss to the Brit
ish of three wounded Two patrols were
| also wounded.
President Steyn is at Uitkop His presence
| there is supposed to account for the Boer
| activity
The Lourenzo Marques correspondent of
the Times. telegraphing yesterday, says:
| Among the Boer agents here there is talk
of negotiations being opened with view
to securing peace. The nature of these ne
gotiations is not made public. Mr. VOL
marans, a cousin of the member of the
Transvaal executive of the same name has
arrived here. He declares that he intends
to take no further part in the fighting
THE British prisoners at Nooitgedacht
are suffering terribly from cold. and ar
rangements are being made to provide
them with shelter. Their rations are iden-
teal with the scanty fare served out to the
| burghers."