Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-15
.BOTHA STILL
FORMIDABLE.
Pacification Of TransvaaI Will
Require Months, Not Weeks.
KRUGER ISSUES PAPER NOTES
He Has n Printing Press In His Car anu is
Turning Out Quantities of Paper Money
Those Who Decline Paper arc Given
Gold Discs or Gold in Bars Butler Can
not Advance without Moro Supplies.

London. June $3.50 a. m.-That
Commandant General Louis Botha
should have been able to stand for two
days against Lord Roberts and then to
retreat without losing any guns or hay
ing any of his men captured is taken
TO mean that he has a force which
the British must still reckon as rorni-
dable when acting defensively.
The paciiication of the whole of the
Transvaal. especially the wide spaces
far from the railways. is looked upon
| as Il business requiring months rather
than weeks.
Meanwhile everything goes well for
the BRUSH arms. a Boer bulletin is
sued June IL at Machadodorp said:
Both wings OF the Federal forces
touched the advancing enemy ycster-
| day at 10 O'Clock, east of Pretoria
Fighting continued until dark. The
enemy. though in overwhelming num-
oers, were checked along Il Inc of Sc
miles and the ourshers succeeded IN
driving back their right wing five
miles. Two burghers were killed and
| 10 wounded"
Another Machadodorp announcement
is that the first regiment of General
Buffers force to attack Almonds Mex
was "annhilated." but as the British
| NSit III pNSI w lelllllilSs IpIcc, the DuTSE-
crs were compelled to abandon the mex.
| dispatch from Lourenzo Marques,
| dated yesterday, says:
president Kruger Is holding on TO
his gold and issuing paper notes from
press in his executive car. The Boer
governments coin stock is exhausted,
and the official are now paying out
plain disks unstamped. Some who have
| declined to accept notes have taken
| their salaries in gold bars. The ISoer
government is still paying out much
| gold in that way"
TWO steamers arrived at Lorenzo
MARQUEE 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 various steamers
en- route for the Transvaal. Mr. Grove
| the British Consul-Gcneral has large
stocks of clothing for the British pris-
oners; 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 adj
vance further until he gets supplies.
| He will probably walt until the tunnel
| has been cleared. Nearly every farm
| house his troops passed flew n white
flag. The British took nothing with
out paying for II: and n brisk business
was done in milk, eggs bread and
chickens by thrifty housewives who
were pleased to get so much British
money.
General Rumble had sharp sllirmish
at Fcksburg on June II. The Boers
| had been aggressive along the whole
Ficksburg Senekal line mad menaced
Ficksburg in force. The British out
posts retired to the village General
Rumble held the attention Of the Beers
in front with two guns, while Yeo-
many We're sent around to their rear
and drove them Off with loss TO the
Bitish OF three wounded. Two patrols
were also wounded
President Steyn is ut UitkoD. His
presence there is supposed to account
for the Boer activity.