Show ASKED FOR ARMISTICE i it t p GEN BOTHA REQUESTED SIS DAYS CESSATION C He Desired to Consider Proposal of Roberts to Surrender Latter Offered Of-fered Five Days But Was Declined London June 10 3 a rnLord Roberts according to a Boer dispatch t from Machadodorp sent a dispatch to Commandant Louis Bouts on June 23rd suggesting disarmament and 07 complimenting the bravery oC the burghers It was pointed out that tho 1 surrender would be without dishonor to time burghers and would prevent much suffering Gen Botha asked for 1 a sljc days armistice In order to confer Ij con-fer and consider Lord Roberts consented t con-sented to five days Finally Gen Botha i br declined to accept the proposal and hostilities iIll hos-tilities were renewed H ii The Boer commandos arc retiring j r ° to MIddleburg followed by the British cavalry and artillery occasionally L r shells reaching the rear guards The burning the veldt behind them carry J Boers are destroying the bridges and J I ing oft provisions and cattle and leaving ttH leav-ing the country barren ° Other advices from Machadodorp say that the Boers have an abundance of arms and ammunition with dynamite Q and oxen and that they are preparing Ff prepar-ing heavy wagon trains for a retreat to the Lydenburg district where the I1JJ chiefs notwithstanding rumors to tho mt contrary are prepared to make a f stand 3 llir The Boers continue to work the Bar baton mines says a dispatch from LI Lourenco Marques and there are eight L pI1m carloads of bar gold valued at 5000 Fi 000 with President Krugcr bt 4 Mr Stoyn in his proclamation declaring id bt de-claring the Free Slate still free and Independent i In-dependent says the Tact that the army im Is yet In the field renders Lord Rob I t ertss action contrary to international J law tIn t-In a dispatch to the War office from p1 Pretoria dated yesterday Lord Roberts 1 Rob-erts says that Gen BadenPowell has J p t Just arrived there fl The Ljrcnco Marques correspond III Itlier ent of tho Times under yesterdays 4j iiisI date says Judge Van Lceuwen I rd who left Pretoria with a permit from tY LImo military Governor la understood h to have been the bearer of a verbal message from Ume British authorities ois to President Kruger to the effect that I If ho would surrender now ho would 1ra not be sent out of the country Judge mdi Van Lceuwon was unable to sea Mr Kruger but when passing through ii o Machadodorp he told Stato Secretary j1i Rolls about his mission The latter scouted the idea of surrender IisLIj |