Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-08
PRES. KRUGER
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wires were working as usual to Lon
demo- Marquee.
The Daily Express in commenting
upon the interview. refers to the "un-
abated defiance of the chief of the
Transvaalers
Nine hundred British prisoners ar
rived, Tuesday, at Nooitgedacht. They
are penned in a barbed wire enclosure
of four acres on the open veldt.
According to a dispatch from Lon
renzo Marquee, dated yesterday, Lord
Roberts is reported to have intercept-
ed two trains full leaving the vicinity
of Pretoria. kilograms from the Brit
ish side are exceedingly scanty. Two
brief ones received from Pretoria saw
that Mrs. Kruger is still occupying the
presidency and that a number of en-.
gines and cars have been secured. The
British under Major Delisle captured
machine gun and caused the Beers
heavy loss, the British casualties being
slight. Boer officials removed $500, 900
in gold from the National Bank, June
4, but did not touch the cash holdings
of the other banks.
Some of the Beers are surrenderinr
voluntarily; and the townspeople Of
Pretoria are described as showing con-
siderable enthusiasm over the British
arrival.
Provost Battersby, in dispatch to
the Morning Post from Pretoria. dated
June s. says: The Beers pledged
themselves to 20 British officers not to
take the British prisoners away If
these officers would control them and
prevent an outbreak. Nevertheless.
they began their removal. After 900
had been taken, British shells struck
train that was loading and the Beers
desisted and retired.
THE British officers at Daspoort re-
fused to leave their quarters and made
the Boer commandant n prisoner, re-
leasing him, at midnight. on the condi-
ton that he would cancel the order for
the removal of the prisoners. The Pre-
toria forts were found without guns.
All the artillery had been gotten
away"
Another dispatch says: sixteen
hundred British prisoners were re-
moved. After the government had
taken away most of the stores
to help themselves. All the British
found was a few hundred bags of coffee
and sugar
Elmira, N. Y, June 1T is reported
by the Canton. Pa, Sentinel, that
President Kruger. if he succeeds in
evading the British will locate in or
near Brownlee, Tioga county, Pa.
Mll rn1a Of L
who lives in Brownlee. wrote Kruger
at the breaking out of the war inviting
him to locate there in case eventuali-
ties made it necessary for him to leave
the Transvaal Males recently re-
ceived letter from Dom Paul accept
ing the invitation and representatives
of the Transvaal have made inquiries
concerning the price OF farms in the
vicinity of Brownlee. which has a large
number of Dutch residents.
London, June S.-The Lourenzo Mar
ques correspondent of the Times tele-
graphing. yesterday. says: United
States Consul Hollis returned. today,
from the Transvaal by special train
The object Of his unexpected visit
arouscs curiosity
''ilt IRi4'lift iput'l ltluSttS nave
found accommodations on board the
Netherlands cruiser Friesland'
London. June THE Birmingham
Post, organ of Joseph Chamberlain, the
secretary of state for the colonies.
says it hears from an official source at
The Hague that serious question
concerning President Kruger is now be-
fore the Netherlands ministry.
The paper adds that the President up
to last Friday. had decided to seek
refuge on board the Dutch cruiser
Friesland now off Lourenzo Marquee.
and asserts There is beyond doubt,
good reason to believe that instructions
have been cabled to the commander of
the warShip.
London, June ill p. Mn the
absence of anything from British
sources enlightening the Boer state
| ment that Gen. Butler requested a
three days armistice, the military ex-
perts here are inclined to believe re-
vised version of the story will show
that Gen. Butler summoned the fed
erals to surrender or evacuate their
positions within three days, failing
which he will attack them.
According to a dispatch from Lou
renZo Marquee under today's date the
Beers under Gen. Botha are reconcen-
trating in the neighborhood of Nather-
| ly, IL miles east Of Pretoria. From the
same source it is reported that the
British prisoners are being removed to
Nooitgcdacht, an unhealthy spot in the
Elande valley. About 300 men arrived
there. June 5, and 700 reached the
place. June 6. These probably cOnsti-
tute the portion of the prisoners which
Lord Roberts reported had been shift
ed from Waterfall.
The strained relations between the
secretary of state for war, the Mar
quis of Lansdowne and British Com
mandcr- in Chief Lord Wolseey. ap-
pears to have reached such pitch that
but for the exigencies of the situation
Lord Wolseley would have resigned.
1t seems that Lord LansdOwne at
tempted to usurp some of the authority
always heretofore welded by the COM
mander-in-c chief and the latter is now
said to have laid the whole matter be-
fore Lord Salisbury.
London, June THE Liberal leader
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