THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 February 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

Doers not allowed to eater Swaziland.

Boers captqre and destroy two Trains.

Afrikander Bond urge De Wet to

Surrender.

[by electric telegraph—copyright]

(per press association.)

Eeceivcd this clay at 9 1 a.m. Loxdon, January 14

Tho Queen of Swaziland informed Kitchener she desires to prevent the Boers entering her territory. Tho Boers captured two tiains near Belfast, robbed the passengers and started the trains so that they came into collision and the engines smashed. Thirty thousand applications for enlistment in Baden-Powell's Constabulary have been received in London. Two thousand six hundred were accepted. T. P. Thoron, President of the Afrikander Bond, is proceeding to Capetown to consult Piet De Wet, who desires that the Bond should send a deputation to intimate to Christian De Wet and Steyn that tho Afrikanders will alt'ord no material help to the raiders, and persuade the commandos to re-cross the Orange River and surrender, Ho is confident that Botha will then yield, as he is aware that Botha formerly earnestly advocated surrender.

Botha is apparently seeking refuge in Pongola bush in south Swaziland and the extreme south-eastern portion of-Trans-vaal. Ho has ten thousand cattle and the convoy extends for miles. Tho commando crossed the Orange River on the 13th.

At Phillipstown district De Wet commands.