PRETORIA.

Manawatu Herald, 12 June 1900, Page 2

PRETORIA.

When Lord Roberts was entering lY.ieria three of the enemy's train* were on the point of leaving. Two were captured. TV third, said to bsve been laden w's.h p-, oners horses and gold, escaped. On the previous night a number of British prisoners were directed to entrain, but refused, and disarmed their guards and captured the commandant. It is stated that a thousand British prisoners are penned up in a bz. bedwire enclosure on the open vddt at Nooitgedacht. Mr Bennett Burleigh, the correspondent of the " Daily Telegraph," says that many guns and several hundred Boer officers were captured at Pretoria. The town was found to be intact. THE CAPTURED YEOMANRY. Colonel Spragge's battalion of British Yeomanry, which was captured . by the decent of a force of Boers up"n"the lines of communication, included three of the corps composed of men of social position, formed under the style of " gentlemen's companies." The men captured are mostly Irislimen. There is hardly a prominent family in Dublin or Belfast that is not affected by the disaster. GENERAL BULLER. The silence of Lord Roberts is taken as an indication that he is preparing a great surprise in the direction of Majuba Hill and Lang's Nek, acting in co-operation with General Buller, whose forces are m Northern Natal. In a report to tjie War Office, General Buller states v thaf dn Wednesday last Major-General Coke,' with the Tenth Brigade and the South African Horse,' seized Vanjyk Hill, ten miles north-west of Newcaftle. The operation was achieved after much sniping. The casualties were four killed and thirteen wounded. On the next day two naval twelve pounders and two 4.7 guns were mountI ed on Vanjyk Hill and on the southwestern spur of Inkwelo Hilf two five* I inch guns were posted. I [Inkwelo Hill is about eighteen miles north of Vanjyk — in fact, is almost within rifle-shot v -of Majuba* ,3* At«4he base of Inkwelo is O'Neill's fi|hn^4 place often referred to in with the war of 1881.] . -^ The fire from these guns was cofttinued with effect, and on Friday Ma-jor-General Hildyard's division as- > saulled all the spurs between Botha's Pass and Inkwelo. The attack was well planned, and was executed with immense dash. Precipitous mountains were scaled, and the enemy outflanked. The Boers abandoned a very strong position. The British sustained no casualties. - < General Buller says that he hopes the position now held at Lang's' Nek by the Boers will be untenable. BOERS IN ORANGE RIVER COLONY. A commando of two thousand Boers, with six guns, has appeared at Roodeval, north of Kroonstad, in Orange River Colony, and has cut the telegraph line. LYDENBURG. It is believed at Capetown that the Boers have only two months' supply. qf ammunition and foodstuffs at Lydenburg, in tfie north-east of the Transvaal, where they have been supposed to be fixing their headquarters. BRITISH PRISONERS.; Some further particulars of the loings of those British prisoners who overcame their guards in Pretoria on the night before the arrival of Lord Roberts's troops are to hand. It seems that it was the commandant >f the city that they captured. He .vas subsequently released on parole, >n giving his promise tha'the" \vould not renew the order for their .entrainment or put in force the other already issued. , -• ■ ■ The remainder of the ftarty of prisoners afterwards witnessed -the •ntry of the British troops into city. ..."•' Meanwhile they had captured two prominent commandants. There are no officers among the ! orisoners whom the Boers removed to Nooitgedacht. ; . • It appears that the British prisoners now at Nooigedacht were entrained at Pretoria by trickery, it being pretended that they were being taken out to meet Lord Roberts. STEYN. Mr Steyn, ex-President of the Orange Free State, is now at Bethlehem in the eastern part of his lute territory seventy-five' mifes B<mtiN&Bfc*>of Kroonstad. ' '■ ■ . : ■■■ f ';■'< ' * IMPERIAL BUSHMEN. . : The transport M&nbattaV with the Victorian contingent of Imperial bushmen on board, has arrived at Belra. , Two hundred troops are being entrained daily at Beira for Salisbury*.^ N PRETORIA. The civilians at Pretoria had decided some days ago to surrender, the town, and its abandonment Bad actually begun. : \ The return of General Botha, however, prevented this course being fully carried out. CAPTURE OF GUNS, . Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Hunter's column, which is -now- ia possession of Lichtenburg, forty miles north-east of Mafeking, captured, tjwp guns on arrival in the town. 1 »? FRIENDLY ADVICE. .* Mr Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York " World," one of the greatest champions of Boer interests in America, urges the Boer to surrender, as their cause is lost. The Republics are, he says, beaten, and to pursue guerilla warefare will be a crime. Mr W. St. Hollis, the American Consul at Lorenzo Marquez, has conferred with Mr Kruger at Machadorp. It is believed that Mr Hollis urged the President to sue for peace. MISCELLANEOUS. Since the commencement of ftie war the Transvaal Government has

Commandeered fr-vn N*2 Rand mines gold to thfi value c r cwo and a half millions string. , The Tr ■-. waal Governmen f officials command uered three :ui!'. — n • •"- ihe National Bank.

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