The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-15
AFRICAN WAR
MAY CONTINUE
MANY MONTHS.
General Botha Shows His Ability in
Defensive Fighting BY Holding
Roberts at Bay Two Days
WITHOUT LOSING A man.
Kruger Holding on to His Gold.
Paying Soldiers in Various
Kinds OF Money.

LONDON, June Is, $3.50 a. m.-That
commandant General Louis Bothu
should have been able to stand for two
days against Lord Roberts and then to
retreat without losing any guns or hav-
ing any of his men captured, is taken
to mean that he has a force which
the British must still reckon as formid-
able when acting defenslvely.
The pacIAcatlOn of the whole of the
Transvaal. especially the wide space far
from the railways, is looked upon as
a business requiring months rather than
weeks.
Meanwhile everything goes well for
the British arms. A Boer bulletin is
sued June 12 at Machadodorp, says:
both wings of the federal forces
touched the advancing enemy at 10 a.
m. yesterday. east of Pretoria Fighting
continued until dark, The enemy,
though in Overwhelming numbers. was
checked along u line of thirty-sIX miles,
and the burghers succeeded in driving
back their right wing five miles. Two
burghers were killed and ten wounded"
Compelled to Abandon the Mex.
Another Machadodorp announcement
is that the First regiment OF General
Buffers force to attack Almonds Mex
was annlhllated, but, as the British
were in overwhelming force the burgh-
orr vern connelIed To abandon the Mex.
A dispatch from Lourenzo MARQUEE
dated yesterday says;
"Presldent Kruger IS holding onto his
gold and Issuing paper notes from n
press in his executive car. Tho Boer
governments coin stock is exhausted
and the officials are now paying out
plain gold disks 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.
Butler Must Have Supplies,
General Butler will be unable to ad-
vance further until he gets supplies.
He will probably wait until the. tunnel
has been cleared. Nearly every farm
house his troops passed flew u white
flag. The British took nothing with
out paying for 1t, and brisk business
was done in milk, eggs, bread and chic
kens 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 unlike our people.
They took my horses In exchange for
sheep and meals and made me make
butter, which they never paid FOR. 1
am sending to have my men como at
once"
"win Ny Husband be shOtF"
Usually the first question Boer
woman asks is: "wlll my husband be
shot II he is captured?" one young
man was pulled from under bed and
no went on his knees, begging the Eng
lish patrol not TO shoot him.
General Rumble had a sharp sklrmlsh
at Flcksburg on June IL. The Beers
had been aggressive along the whole
FIcksburg. .sonekal line and menaced
Flcksburg In force. The British out
posts retired to the village. General
Rundlc had the attention OF the Beers
in front with two guns while the Yeo-
manry were sent round to their rear and
drove them on, with u 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
f,r tho Tlnpr ortIvitv