| Show i Will Pretoria Be the Boers Last Ditch 1 utterances of two TUB prominent men ont on eIther r Ilde cf the contro would to Indicate Ule of neither II eru hed hedI I and the will be pursued to the bitter end Pr Steyn ot the ther Orange Free State We at atthe r the Vaal river nt PretorIa and nUn ward In the mountaIn We noth J Ing to gaIn by the ot tho little Island of from the roar of baUle and the din of oon lct pro Lord deliver er a tollow Under the of Lord Robert r arm than haa been lIt acroN m ex panic of In rt to to the thon t never to bu been and In to South i AfrIca only chance It lIaa or peace and tranquillity Ther it little doubt that two olce the or either aIde II as no holding of the branch and If all thine could the than an r It Is be Informed that tb ar arto to be to to the qUe n I another ay f fj j saying thet thy to toward of Jt Will b au nene would not to aDd adu latora of toyal and to a that out from the Cap and andi i fer beyond veldt and inlo the mountain when 11 Ow Dut It II cne thing for Lord t iI lare what hi are ancI quite to tore U to totAl tAl It now seVIn Inee w r I ud nd Buller landed 11 Africa with theIr I marked via the liven tbt walery tal I On to l whIt hal At the ver were t n by vIr of 1111 t ru y for th oC Ii 5 betaS alloNe t forth to rava ull r r rj elII to by oer tor I th Then waed t t 1111 I of t the fOI en 11 Ih little trapi the noer urd I nd el to 1 nil or th war w wRt Rt t I 1 JI h n th r I 1 n In al Yule 1 t IHk II III hll men ro dmora d ami tb r hll I l I tp It I with he nM litt III Ic tor the liKe lh t fled Int r I had III j forward on t 11 i tHI y lu III ade 1 1 I another fI th of Th nr t utIle General I II bad r wo from III bae It W I stopped by an In force ot Doers then allowed to go goon on Until at It lost more than oo men to Itay at the pleasure Duller had Intended to the Free but he alarmed at atthe the reports from and gave the ot the army ot InvasIon oer to coinS to the of White Dut right Into a at and tor a Ion time It that hll whole be captured or AI tor all th world knows what hap to In brief It 1 what happened to all the a out to a halt onlY allowed to the DonI had JIm t a e and could aughter hll lin without Ine the first twel montha ot tilt war tb had a round half donn donnot ot bottled up and thy were until the ar arrival rival of overwhelmIng under LordI and the coming of Little Dobs thIn took on a more hue D the or the force at Ille command he that re redoubtable doubtable old lion out of laIr rM 1118 lurren lurrender der with sr his men Another to the Detent about time the death by at I rt and the capture of eral who were erv ervIng Ing the lumy An the be points ere cI but i another the tbell great bue In the direction withdrawal n hardlY called a It had I anticipated In Doer ot op was expected by them In i ica ca e the cam upon them In I numbers thy can to haru U of by dhel at ex and by lathering In detached of or I Ian an whenever the van or the rame l with the rear guald ot thy that the had which It to lood upon the too foe Atter tho inevitable of the I Free Itt ertl to rut and tto t hi Un of communication tion with tb Cape mlle In to exhausted toNt and to the tn the caval rr Inu u te the Uve 10 ere all or two t ono the lah ud tb at onen Of 4 h It ee ere of Boe the vat moua tC I of the h been tor yarl GMt baa men In tIN neW I the of ber aad supported at an ex D which Ut mar mart t lima At l but 1111 It Into her herby by abt bit I the of her ud I hili me In Ihl that he Ie 10 eu atter all allI I nt Ue ernel of the matter II 1111 even no an nde quate comprehensIon of the terrible tUk before her brave ancI dollS that what has alread bilen aone vast as It ma Is In 11 lense merely pr to II to come Doha hu his army ht ot mlle from hll real base of With the retreat of the Doers the mountain the ot Duller and the con capture or several Free State towns will be enabled to 11 new via Durban on the coast and thu reduce by or mil ne wll ha two of and trIbutary to hl l mo t oC the wy and with the fall of or wilt H cure a thIrd to roll the to the Interior It I t Ju that the lit Ia for a more U e of with nd tb ot the t 0 Day road II tIt In view ot the attitude of he the very first ao tar as possible acting on the but when equal to ex nor theIr opponents exhIbiting the and thell hu of fI remarkable re rere re of the world anxIously the next move In their schema ot de ten Opposed to Lord Robert are the beat Boer and De who purpose every mUt of the begun on the bt or lay onward at or about eIght IL day force of men and with ns many mo In Th tante from to the Zand on da JO II to Kroon mile to the rIver tJI to l miles n the Vaal Ind Pretoria and mil from the theDoe Doe U the bon ot con gold mUI ot th have an output mor equal equalIng Ing that of all other gold mines In the world combined It II 18 gold Was and II aln the fiut tamp mill Will at Johan and t fr the Iy IfO gold to the amount of nearly hus been already taken out Thele mines to the at present In clutches of tho Doer who moro than that In event of the arrival at tho Ish all will be de troyed put of the can be to rIle and If are unmolested they can de derive rive a that will eMble them to tor many t tact 10 long as their cour ap bold out Dut It hILI been d and ns oCten denied that the ate already wIth dynamite and andIn In the enter po they In grandOit bre of ever con tit by Is rICo ns to probabilIty Ity ot the doloG for they nothing b It but ana the or upon the foreign 10 that uld be almost Kruger nOlI hI burghers havo already sh Wn patriotism II above ever thing In U more to them than gold or gems mil more than 1000 miles from Cape CapeTown Town miles from th Jort f Durban and miles from the lor harbor of Delagoa Day lies the Great of all Lord Hobert capital ot the the lut stand ot It hu n population In time ot of about I Its are good and It Is lighted by and traversed b The most build I Is the oC parliament which On the side ot the lI on It stands Bre the and oC alao a pub 11 bull erected at of a contaIn contaInIng Ing a fine collection Of curIos and ot denomination 1 rom natural sprInge three mile tant the city Rella nar tailing or pure water Is a good sew sewerage system While the approach to Pretoria from Johannesburg the south II level over a lilt and plateau yet on the north and west arc rugged rilIng from 1000 to 2000 teet above the ell the leval of which II feet above the theeta eta The mountains hav fortified to the limit of The SIdes of the hse been their leveled and topped with domes of masonry tune bomb IntrIcate linN ot constructed everywhere un I not a kopJe without Its frownIng cannon The best engineers of Europe have been for 15 In makIng PretorIa 11 Impregnable as sIble the result Is not all evident at 1 glance tor the main features bave been kept ore than h been expended and I BIRDSEYE VIEW OF PRETORIA SHOWING DEFENSES when the of the big ed all around It hu been drawn thIs city In the center ot A teacup will willbe be 11 the crater bed ot a vol volcano cano ot a In which II grave the or will willbe be Much has been wrItten at the grut guns bleh the Dors bad mounted on the about Lad and most or which UC ded In bringing off III their Dut these they H as nothing compared with tho o they In on till torta as to and yearl have been quietly and are or the be In 1 18 be tron the or 1 The greot of our thole ot And of have can upon at it pinch and lopal has 00 nn of what llers do In tha oay ot to mau mauA A late of the United statu government who recently Pre torla I viewed the defelo them Impregnable I do not believe troops will ever pu tho line or surrounding the town brIstling IS they aro with power and Cr gun All have had a glimpse or the I PretorIa that the Aro fully ed for 11 se severe vere and struggle and will willbe be able to hold the oft for an In dt period So long as lut Oc October tober Joubert declared Ev r the Jam ton raid of our gov government was would bo urged to war UI and Wt were equallY that we hould have to depend upon our own re this we our means of trIed to keep the In the dark to our real preparations To thIs purpose we to our antiquated but were careful to COnceal them nil our parks Of artillery ThO English the reports and theIr cr On to Pre PretorIa torIa I Is on a lovel of Intelligence with the Parisian cry of A A or e tor us than war tor we are perfectly at hom In L 1 the ot the Transvaal And Orange lore State The Will bave to contest every step under and must be pre prepared pared to light on two or three 11 begin a var whIch the will not be able to endure Every prediction made by the Joubert hal com true up to the pre ent time tor the DoetS Were InvarIablY on ot operations In and now on more they are familiar territory wIth the df operation theIr bue of sup supplies plies ever more RII homes at hand he be nuda clou Indeed who will to refute the great s c there that old Oom Pa 1 Kru er In the heart of hll web at and the are be fondlY to Dobl GrId big army of lie and hIs alone can tell whether or not I to be the Doer or whether II IIan Iut ditch ot the an will blow up elaborate and nee to toi i the hills H I I I coIn tarm near of I the A t coIn the publiC Into a all U be or at OO III student of hll of la t |
