Show KRUGER lAS SIIPPED Reports ii His Departure With His Cabinet II from the Boer Capital Tuesday J J I are Confirmed Transvaal Capital if Not Already in the Hands of the British Soon Will BeLord Roberts Occupies Johannesburg and the British Flag Floats Over the Government Building French and Hamilton Hamil-ton Fought Engagements Monday and Tuesday I messages from Pretoria confirm tho ic j portu of the departure of President Kruger with his Cabinet and staff ofll daIs Tuesday night and the selection t a meeting of citizens of a committee to administer the city provisionally Since these telegrams left on Wednesday nothing apparently v > ias reached Lourenco Marques by telegraph j tele-graph from Pretoria Possibly the ivlres have been cut Possibly the j Boer censorship at some intermediate point intercepts telegrams BRITISH AT BOER CAPITAL Although the War ollice has not received I re-ceived H word about it no one in London harbors the Idea that the Doer capital is not already in the hands of I the British or about to be there The possession of Johannesburg ut all events as Lord Roberts has telegraphed I tele-graphed Isa fact Slphe Slatls Attorney Smuts did not de I pare vlth President Kruger but re mnlncd in Pretoria I The present Heat of the Doer Government meat according to n dispatch from Lourenco Marques dated yesterday Is jj i Mlddksburg but It will probably be shifted further east i MOVE TOWARD LYNDBURG I Tho Boers lately confronting Lord Roberta appear to have gone toward I the Lydenburg region The deC nd rot r-ot Lalngs Nek when their poaltion become I be-come too perilous will probably trek straight northward toward Lyden burg When this concentration takes pUco there will be possibly l > 0000 men vho may hold out for a time with scattered bands of guerrillas elsewhere BRITISH CASUALTIES LIGHT The press dispatches from the headquarters head-quarters oC Lord Roberts give no esti S mate as tQ the number of Boers who were fighting Gen French and Gen lull Hamilton on Monday and Tuesday Tues-day but they all agree that the Boers retired and that the British casualties UCC slight DOER BEGGED FOR TIME The War office has received tho following fol-lowing dispatch from Lord Roberts under date Gcrmlston May 30th In answer to uJng of truce I sent to Johannesburg thlK morning tho fommamlanti came to wee me IIu lagged nu to defer entering the town for twentyfour hours as there were many armed burghers Htlll ln Ido I agreed to this as I am most anxious to avert the possibility of anything like disturbance inside tho town and as boll of tho enemy are still holding the hIs In the immediate neighborhood neighbor-hood from which they will have toijo cleared off beforehand RUNDLE HAS A FIGHT Rundlo reports that he attacked n large party of Boers near Senekal on May 2Sth Ho said his casualties were not heavy Brabant reports that on May 28th two of his patrols consisting of two officers and forty men were cut oft by L tht enemy and taken prisoners HAMILTONS ENGAGEMENT II The War ofllce has received from Lord Roberta another dispatch dated Ger j inlalon May 30th 9 p m saying The brunt of the fighting yesterday S fell upon Ian Hamiltons column I have sent him as already mentioned to work around to the west of Johannesburg 0 Jo-hannesburg in support of Frenchs cavalry cav-alry which was directed to go north near tho road leading to Pretoria I have not heard from French yet but Hamilton 11 a report which has just reached me states that at about 1 J oclock In the afternoon he found his way blocked by the enemy strongly rested on some kopjes and ridges three mucH Houth of the Hand They had two 1 heavy guns ant several field guns and L pompoms Hamilton forthwith attacked at-tacked tacwt s LED BY THE GORDONS t The right was 1C by the Gordons who after capturing one extremity oC the ridge wheeled around and worked Jf along It until after nrk clearing it of D tho iMicmy who fought most obstinate i 4 ly The One Hundred and Fourth led on tho other flank and would not bed be-d nl < d Tho chief Hharc In the action as In the casualties fell to tho Gordons l Whose gallant advance excited the admiration ad-miration of all HAMILTON AT FLORIDA Ji Hamilton IM now at Florida dueS due-S Teat of Johannesburg and French is I n few milcH further to the northeast The Gordons the cavalry the mounted I 4 I irfintry and the Seventh division are holding tho heights of the town The 3b i Klcaohth division with batteries Hand C J and the heavy artillery are south of Johanncflbursr Hamilton terms of Hnmlon speaks In high r 5 PralsAof the manner In which Bruce Huiitol and Cot Spens of the Shrop 9 Rhht1 ht Infantry handled their men S I under HmltliDorrlens direction j TALK OF PRETORIA I j The Dolly Mall tot It has received cable dispatches from Pretoria com plotcly confirming Lord Rosslyns dispatch j contrmlng Lr nouIns 4 patch of yeatwrdiiy announcing the Imminent Im-minent fall of the capital l of the Transvaal 2 vnnl j vaalROBERTS J ROBERTS IN JOHANNESBURG IP i Tho following dlHputah from Lord S f I uoberts has been received at tho War I QI hro AD I John1 bur May 31 2 p mHr I Itu lajZtyH In possession 4 istyH force are now po eSlon 1 of Johannesburg and th British fIg I fonts over the Government building p KKUGER RSPOHTED CAPTURED p The It la j r Westminster Gaxello says 1 uttt rumored tonight In n quarter likely toe to-e 0 TV 1 informed that Pnwldnnt Kru KT had been captured by the British OB Bis mUM beyond Prelorln f The War rfllcc here knows nothing Kr about the reported capture of Fred l 1 tem Krugvr f I WILL ISSUE PROCLAMATION 1 A dlxpatch from Capetown ysi C i porf thr > occupntion of Johannesburg Lord Rob rK I il saId will IsI411 1 proclamation dwuunrlnp rhn mal c tuU4 liibhs rgarttt g lh 11IlsJn t of tl Udtlh an1 tll O uluIr 1l I blh ar the ge II I p nun rtt I fl t nf nun tomUIit lH d Jr 1 Ur herb excepting those xth 1 r RC I I I tively connected with the promotion of tho war directing Its operations commandeering com-mandeering or looting or other acts contrary to civilized war will be allowed al-lowed to return to their farms thereto there-to remain unmolested on proving the surrender of their arms and on taking an oath not to light again PROPERTY WILL BE PROTECTED Private property It Is added will be respected providing British property proper-ty is not damaged If British property Is wantonly destroyed not only will I tho actual perpetrators be severely i punished In person and property but I the authorities permitting It will behold be-hold responsible All the Inhabitants I are urged to prevent wanton damage The principal employees of the mining mi-ning and commercial concerns at Johannesburg Jo-hannesburg are under orders as this I dispatch Is 1 sent LO be ready to depart thence at an hours notice but the au I thorltlcs are restricting the return of the general public ROLLING STOCK CAPTURED r Bnett Burlelgh writing to the I Dally Telegraph from Elandsfonteln Tuesday says Much rolling stock and seven engines have been captured I by l Lord Robertas column The principal princi-pal losses In the fighting have been sustained by the mounted Infantry hut the casualties are trifling Gen French and Gen Hamilton were engaged en-gaged to the west of Johannesburg Since Sunday tho western columns have bcon fighting but although tho guns were used the actions were never serious In fact they were only big skirmishes The Boers uro retreating to Pretoria REARGUARD ACTION Mr Provost Battersby In a dispatch to the Morning Post from Germlston dated May Oth says The cpemy I fought a rearguard acton retiring from tho south to the north of the town with their pompoms and artll lory In the morning and withdrawing their riflemen through the town in tho I afternoon We captured nine engines i and over a hundred wagons Two trains arc leaving tonight for the Veal We succeeded In cutting the line In three directions and imprisoning 111 the rolllnjr stock In Johannesburg It was splendid piece of work The enemy en-emy were astaundcd at the rapidity of our advance BOER FORCES MASSING Another correspondent telegraphing from Germlston the same days says I learn that the Boers are massing I six miles south of Pretoria for a new and desperate stand with a front of twelve miles I Other rumors in the camp of Lord Roberts are that President Kruger is ill at Lydonburg and that the ammunition ammu-nition of the Does Is running short M IL Donohu the correspondent of the Dally Chronicle was captured yesterday yes-terday |