Show BunsuIos R WARS I WAR-S Casualty Returns Up to S June 9th i Aggregate S 23664 Besides 13147 Sent Home t S as Invalids S i i S These Figures Do Not Include the Sick in South African Hospitals S Broken Communications of Lord Roberts are in a Pair Way to be Mended Gen Buller is at Last Master of Lamps Nek I London June 13 320 a nThe W ar office casually returns up to June 9th aggregate 23661 besides 792 officers and 12357 men sent home as Invalids but not Including the sick in South African t S S lhospiials SI S ENCOURAGING FOR BRITISH I Two pieces of news encoifraglng to time J British in the ofllclal dispatches are I that the broken communications oC Lord Roberts are In a fair way to be mended by the forces moving north vVard and southward and driving off I i the roving commandos and that Sir ltcuv rs miner JH Jit last JIHUUUL S vu Lalnjfs Nek S REPAIRING THE TELEGRAPH Telegraphic communication with Lord Roberts Is expected to be restored today as a dispatch from Bloemfon thin dated yesterday hays that the S railway Is In British possession again and that the workof repairing the line Is going on rapidly with abundant ma terial warehoused at Bloemfonteln HUNTER JN COMMAND From the enjoined telegram it would appear that Gen Hunter was In com S mand of the troops referred to by Gen KellyKtnny In his dispatch from Bloemfonleln June J2th Gen Iluntrr Is coming up rapidly from the north S west L having severely defeated a large commando of Boors who had destroyed two miles of railway north of Kroon S slad DISASTER TO DERBYSHIRES S The Doer Government Is also issuing news cheering to its sympathisers The following bulletin the i3oer version of tho disaster to the Derbyshlres was posted by President Kruger at Macha dodorri MatThaS On June 7th four divisions S of bur S S ghers commanded by Steenkamp J Frineman Duploy Fourie and Ilel at I tacked the British at Roodeval killed 200 took 700 prisoners and captured liiiS I mense stores of food and ammunition S a Maxim gun and JOOO lyddite shells Somefood was taken by the Boer farm orsarid th6Vest wagburiied7Tho En gush mail was taken The burghers S 5 attacked from the open Veldt and gave evidence of unprecedented bravery DEWET ALSO FIGHTING Gen Dewct was also fighting June 2nd whether at Roodeval or elsewhere Is not clear but the Boer War office gives it out that he captured 3000 stills of clothing blankets gloves boots etc Being unable to carry them with him In his rapid sweep through the coun S 6 otllce he burned the whole mass Gen Dowel has also reported that he put 1000 British out of action and de stroyed property valued at 100000 A3 Lord Mothuen Is officially described as fighting on June 7th It Is possible that he was engaged by Gen Dewet MONEY TO LAY DOWN ARMS According to a dispatch to time Dally Press from Machadodorp dated June 30th via Lourenco Marques those around President Kruger say that Louis Botha and Delnrev have bean offered Indirectly 10000 a year to lay down their arms and President Kruger ex peels the name offer to be made to him self President Steyn and Dewct Pres ident Kruger believes that the British make these efforts to close the Aar on the principle that it would cost leas lhau to light it nut S BOERS RETREATING A dispatch from Lourenco Marques says that 1500 Boers arc reported to be retiring on Maddleburg from various quarters and that after weeding out the fainthearted 20000 men are still left S SUFFER FOR WATER Gen Duller was unable on Mondaj lo follow up the Boers from lack ot cavalry as uell as water The dis patches describe him nslghtlnga spir ited advance over n rugged Meld undor I prolonged rule lire The Boers had two guns which they got away Few dead or wounded Boers were found It stems probable that the mpjor portion of time Boers had withdrawn before the ad vance began S SURROUNDING THE BOERS Lord Mcthucn Gen Rundle and Gen S Brabant are reported to have 3000 men and fifty guns engaged In inclosing the Boers In the eastern part qf Orange River colony MAJUBA EVACUATED The War office has Issued the follow ing from Duller to the Secretary of WarJouberts S Jouberts Farm June 32 S12 S p m Encamped four mIles north of Vblka rust La Ings Nek and Majuba were completely evacuated by the Boers last night Gen Clery from Ingogo Is now coming ovor the tick I have had to camp here for want of water A correct list of yesterdays casualties will ba sent as soon as received KNOX TO INTERCEPT BOERS The Wai office has received the fol lowing dispatch from Gen Kelly Ken py Bloemfonteln June 12Our troops from the north are at Honlngspruit uouth of Roodeval where the Boers cut the British lines of communication having defeated the enemy They will be at America siding tomorrow at S a in Gen Knox moves out from Ivron tad to Intercept the enemy NO WORD FROM METHUEN The following dispatch has been received re-ceived at the War office from Gen For itstlerWalkor In command of the lines of communication In South Africa Capcton June 12The following la from KellyKenny June ilNo com munication from Mclhucn since June an lie wn iigniin uunc oui 10 tno north of Votchkop Steyn is near Reltz The British prisoners sent to Vrcdo aro well treated FABLES FROM BOER SOURCES A plentiful crop of reports has been filtering through Lourenco Marques According to thuse Gun Dewet with 13000 burulKTis Js marching on Johan nesburg time Boer have retaken Bloetntontfln wh rr > Pnesldent Sleyn again occupies lime 1rosldency tho British have sustained a severe defeat I at Elandafontyln and have also lost fto killed and wounded and ISO prisonerB r a fight at yredefort othjoe from an > I I other sources lends color to these sto I 11 II I lies with the exception of the last I which Is probably the Boer version oC i time disaster to the battalion of the Der j byshlro regiment at Roodeval Sm STEYN AT VREDEVET u I I In regard to President Steyn being ab J Bloemfonteln a dispatch from Maseru Basutoland dated Monday June 1st says President Steyn was then at Vrc I devel 200 miles from BloemfontPln S BULLER MAKING PROGRESS S S I Gen Buller appears lo be making S substantial progress and ought soon lo be occupying the railroad at Charles Ion Jn the northern extremity of Natal H I j whence presumably he will advance on Heidelberg and effect a Junction with Lord Roberts S SURRENDER TO IIUNTEFl A dispatch from Llchtenburg1 dated June 11 lh says sixty Johannesburg mounted policemen wllh a Maxim gun havo surrendered to Gen Hunter REPORT IS EXPLAINED S A probable explanation of the reports if S lhat a British force is moving through P Swaziland comes In a dispatch from Port Elizabeth dated June llth an nouncmp time return there of the British cruiser Doris from Kosi bay whither j S sue had taken a number of whaleboats with the object of landing nn armed force presumably part of a plan to J penetrate into Swaziland The Doers however got wind of the expedition and the force was not landed ALMONDS NEK FALLS The War ofilct posts the followine dispatch from Gen Duller S 4 Headquarters In Natal Jiuie JL We forced Almonds nek It Is not marked on the map but Is the last de 1 file to Charleston Flats The enemy ii were In considerable force with several I guns In position The brunt of thb j sightIng fell upontho Second Dorsets who carried the position nt the point of tho bayonet and the Third cavalry brigade who wero heavily attacked on our right from very broken country around Ikelini mountain I hope our casualties arc less than ISfliMwhJchr iderlnprthtrcxrrim TiniiTlT ot lire lcanj pT fdtlon JH much less tlinii T PXflt5OtAl llii The wholtf attack ivan directed by I I Illldyard whose dispositions weree I tremely good The artillery Tentli l brigade and Third cavalry brigade did fj i most of the work S 5 I |