The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-12
And $50 More Have Given IN Their
Arms 10 Gen. Hunter in the
yentersdorp District.
MAcHADoDoRP NOW A CITY
OFFICIALLY PROCLAIMED THE CAP
ITAL Or THE TRANsvAAL.
Boers Put to Flight by Gen. Buifer-
British Ready to Invade kruger
dom from the North.

LONDON, June u, $3.50 a. m.-Fifty thou
sand British troops are within half hun
dred miles of the marauding Beers north of
Kroonstad and they are expected, OF
course, 10 make short work OF them. Never
theless. outside of the slender War Office
kilograms. no one knows what is going on.
South of Kroonstad there is wide gap.
The railway is only partially defended. and,
as General Kelly-K Kenny has hurried all the
available troops northward. the assumption
is that there is danger of second raid
The loss of the Derbyshires is estimated at
from 600 TO 200 men.
A Reuter- dispatch from Maseru. dated
June IL, S:35 D. m. says: Fifteen hundred
Beers surrendered to General Brabant to-
day in the Fricksburg district" Two hun
dred and fifty Beers have surrendered TO
General Hunter, and the remainder in tho
ventersdorp district have promised &c give
up their arms.
Machadodorp has been officially pro-
claimed the capital of the Transvaai. A
Lourenzo MARQUES dispatch says that the
village has swollen into a small city. the
majority Of the new inhabitants living in
tents.
An official Boer telegram asserts that the
British have been defeated with consider
able loss at Donkerpoort, in the southern
extremity of the Free State, or Orange
River colony. ten miles from Norvafs pont.
1t was thought that this district had been
cleared of Beers and rebels long ago.
The Beers still cling to Laing's mex. but
General Buffers forces are stiil working
far around i'm that direction. The following
from General Butler. dated yesterday. has
been issued by the War Office: ''The force
is concentrated on the Kip river at its
junction with the Gansylei. Last night we
Anticipated at that defile a force Of the
enemy about 1000 strong. who had. think.
intended TO occupy It, and he retired as our
guns opened. which were very smartiy
brought into action by Major May. OF the
Royal Artillery, and Captain Jones. of the
ROYAL Navy. The South African Light
Horse and the Second Cavalry Brigade
were smartly engaged. Our casualties are
about six killed and seven wounded.
Lord Roberts has wired Cape Town that
prior to Wednesday he liberated l5l officers
and $500 of the rank and file- The Beers
consequently took of only 800.
Mr.. Schreiner. the Cape premier. had
eight supporters out of forty at a caucus
called to consider the ministerial pro-
sramme ]. X Merriam, treasurer. and j.
w. Sauer commissioner OF public works.
have resigned from the Cabinet and Mr.
Scbreiner's own resignation is believed TO
he imminent. although he may reconstruct
the ministry with the aid of the oppose
tion. the British members. The Cabinet
situation Is so interesting that Sir Alfred
AIiner will postpone his trip north.
Food is still scare at Mafeking. but the
railway is nearly repaired. seventy-two
rebels have been arrested In the Vreyburg
and Mafeking districts. Sixty-five were
marched into Mafeking by two Of their late
prisoners at Mostia.
All of General Carrington's force had
landed at Beira a week ago. The organIza-
ton 10 invade the Transvaal from the north
is already far advanced
A Boer deserter who arrived at Maseru
asserts that 1000 Beers participated in the
Rookrantz engagement. that General OIL
vier was killed and General De viiiers NOR
tally wounded.
The American young women who are
nursing I'm the hospital at Ladyorand have
been sighted by the Boer women who are
nursing the Boer sick in the same hospital.
and have been made the object Of unpleas-
ant remarks because the Americans are
nursing the English.
Thirty thousand troops were engaged in
the mimic field operations at Aldershot
yesterday.
The Daily Chronicle. which recognizes
the great extent OF Mr. Hays services 70
the British prisoners at Waterfall" says;
''rhese services will not be readily forgot
ten United States Consul Hay has been
practically the only means OF communi-
eating between London and 5000 prisoners:
and substantial help of all sorts has been
sent through him."
DISASTER At RooDEyAL.