Coalville Times | 1900-06-01 | Page 2 | British Army Enters the Transvaal

sniTISH ARMY ENTCftS TMBTHANSVAAL. ne.n Od.r I.ltlU n.Ltaar-llrtii;tr Attt fur Ad, lea. Lord Itoberta wrote hli flrttdlipatcb .a Trantvaal territory Sunday, shortly short-ly before S o'clock In the afternoon, at i point fifty-one miles from Johannesburg Johannes-burg and leventy-nven from Pretoria. Hit lmmtntsly superior forces had itaed the Vaal river, their litt great ttittacle, at three polnti. The Vsal formta curve of eighty mllet on tho wett to Zand Drift n the eatt. Thua Lord Koborti, ad itDctng along the railway, wai lu a fotltlon to ilrtki any part of the cres-IreDtby cres-IreDtby shorter lines than those by ivhlch the Doers could reinforce tho j&tealent-d points. Thajloera ratrantad tlmllllKt' a,ihow"'ot"lefeuce. Qeneril Trench and General Hamilton apparently did not Arc President Kruger, according to a special dltpitch from New Cattle, haa Inued a proclamation aiklng the Transvaal burghers to notify him whether they desire to continue the tight or to sue for peace.