Washington County News | 1900-06-02 | Page 4 | British Army Enters the Transvaal

BRITISH ARMY ENTERS THE TRANSVAAL. Boers Offer Little Resistance Krnger Asks for Advice. Lord Roberts wrote his first dispatch on Transvaal territory Sunday, shortly short-ly before 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at a point fifty-one miles from Johannesburg Johannes-burg and seventy-seven from Pretoria. His immensely superior forces had passed the Vaal river, their last great obstacle, at three points. The Vaal forms a curve of eighty miles on the west to Zand Drift on the east. Thus Lord Roberts, advancing ad-vancing along the railway, was in a position to strike any part of the crescent cres-cent by shorter lines than those by which the Boers could reinforce the threatened points. The Boers retreated almost without a show of defence. General French aud General Hamilton apparently did not fire. President Kruger, according to iv special dispatch from New Castle, has issued a proclamation asking the Transvaal burghers to notify him whether they desire to continue the fight or to sue for peace.