Show t BOERS BOERSt Lord LoitI Roberts Returns With Yih Staf StafF to Pretoria BURGHERS TOO ELUSIVE t SUSTAINS BEAVY LOSS LOSSIN HAy I IN TAG TAiG e ei 4 i I I London July 3 30 a a in south Africa Africa have again arIve arrived at a I sort of a standstill Pretoria tele ms announce that Lord Roberts ha has arrived there wih with hIs staf staff apparently finding it useless to spend his energies against a constanty constantly retreating foe Commandant General Botha with sew sev several eral thousand Boers Beers like Uke General Chris Uan tian DoWel DeWet ha has thus far eluded General Robert Roberts grasp General Is besieging Generl General at Rustenburg in weste western Transvaal The relief force sent to Gen Generl General erl eral assistance under Colonel Hickman proved too weak to be Pretoria effective and wa was obliged to fal fall back on General French ha has occupIed Middle bur burg in the Transvaal and General lIddle Pole Caress Carew wih with the gards guards brigade has ar arrive arrived rive rived at twenty mies miles west of Te The war has received a dispatch from Lord Ro Roberts ert explaining that only one train was captured on the night of July 2 21 between Kr and the Val Valand Vaal and that i it contained supplies and two officers ad and 10 men of the Welsh I IA IA A dispatch from dated July uly Z 27 shows that the capture of was preceded by hevy heavy fighting to force a passage of the which was stub stubbornly stubbornly contested for two days Generl General Hunters forces had the hardest work In forcing Relief Nek his casualties amounting to about 10 Upwards of 60 Boer Beers wih with a large number of wagons gons a quantity of stores and many catte cattle have been driven Into the mountain passes whelo e tey they are watched by British troops Their escape from that pint point wi will be ver very difficult The operations have hae been hampered with lh bad weather and d deluges of rain accompanied by intense cold Lieutenant MacLaren and three highlanders have died oV op exposure as wel weli as many horses and cattle A dispatch to the Daly Daily Telegraph from Lourenzo Marques says President Kruger is now at He adds that a fight is expected and If the Boers are beaten President Kruger wl will trek through Swaziland to Delagoa bay and take a steamer f Europe r I |