Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-09
LA|NGS MEX
BOER POSITION Is MADE UNTEN
ABLE.
Captures a Hill Commanding Enemy's
Entrenchments-No Word Re-
ceived from Lord Roberts.

SuAC - OpAO ~ us-06uGEal
Butler has at length taken the offensive
by maneuvering he has secured 1
position west of Laing's Mex. by which
ne Deiieves he can make the Boer posts
lions untenable. Presumably he win
mmedaateiy follow up his success. e
Lord Roberts has communicated moth
ing FOR three days. nor permitted the
correspondents to wire what ia going
on. London's inference is that he r.
resting, although he is possibly DISPOSE
ing his army for a reach after Command.
ant General Botha. A b~lockading of the
Wlres' owing to the rush Of official cor.
may account for the scanty
press dispatches. Some kilograms filed
"a week ago are only Just now arriying,
among these are spirited descriptions 81
the lighting at ElandSfontein, Accord
ing to one of them the streets were fill
ed with women and children. Rifle shots
eouia De heard everywhere. The Brit
ish soldiers would stop firing and join
in the chase after chickens. The bur-
ghers surrendered to any one. Kafirs
went about looting the Jewish stores and
mounted infantry galloped hither and
thither.
The Daily Press has the following
from Pretoria, dated Wednesday:
THE 1000 prisoners who were deport-
ed from Waterfall were told that they
We're about to be given up to Lord Rob-
erts. They entrained cheerfully and
were conveyed to Nooit Gedache instead
of Pretoria.
General Louis Botha, with a rear
guard of 1000. left Pretoria during the
night. The British advance guard on
entering was upon the very heels of the
retiring Beers. Botha has sworn to car
ry on the war in the mountains"
AT LOurenco Marques station a crowd
waited all Thursday night to see Presi-
dent Kruger, as 1t was reported that he
would arrive by a special train to gain
an asylum on board the Netherlands
cruiser Friesland.
Middleburg is said to be full of Boer
refugees and wounded. The railway
still delivers goods at Brockhorst Spruit,
40 miles east of Pretoria. A British col
umn is at Bremersdorp, Swaziland.
Eleven British prisoners have been
moving into the interior in detachments
of 200 daily. 4
G. v. Fiddes. imperial secretary to the
high commissioner, with a part of Sir
Alfred Miners staff, left Cape Town on
evening for Pretoria, possibly.
as the Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily News thinks, to arrange the an
details.
Harold G. Parsons. federation dele
gate from Western Australia, writing to
the morning papers to protest against
the treatment given to the wounded
says: -
The invalid Canadians at s%horncliffe
camp. returned from the front, complain
they are badly fed. unhealthy
crowded and refused a furlough. h
seems a curious return to make for their
conspicuous services voluntarily render
I have it on indisputable authority
that it is the practice of the war office
to administer the British volunteer SER
vice and. for all I know. the regular
army, by means of regulations drafted
a nd iSS11Q1 in pTpot mart on no better
authority than that of it's promoted Sec
ond class clerks, a body of gentlemen, no
doubt. of irreproachable character but
by no means adapted by their inteHi-
so great a responsibility. Such a dele
cation of authority, which is %unconsti-
tutional as well as unbusiness-like, is
in itself enough to show that the whole
war Office from top to bottom must be
reformed. If not reconstructed. after the
war;"
The Daily Chronicle. referring to the
protest of Harold Parsons against
the treatment given the wounded Cana
dians, says that Lord Strathcona has in
vestigated the complaints of the men and
that the matter has been settled salts
factorily. furloughs being granted.
London June s. 11:25 p. m.-The war
Office has received the following dis
patch from General Butler:
yellow Boom Farm, June Son June
b General Ialoot, with the lOtn prlsaoe
and the South African light horse. seiz-
ed Van Wyke hill. The enemy made re-
sistance, and a good deal OF sniping oc-
CURED. Our casualties were about four
killed and Is wounded.
During that day n the following
we got two At and two ~12-pounder naval
guns on to Van Wyke hill, and two five
inch guns on to the southwestern spur
of Inkewelo. Under cover OF their fire
General Hildyard assaulted all the sp-rs
of the berg between Botha's pass and
Inkewelo. The attack. which was we'll
planned by Hildyard and carried out
with immense dash by the troops, for
whom no mountains were too steep, out
lanked the enemy. who were forced to
retire from their very strong position.