THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 April 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

[by ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.]

[per press association.]

Kruger and his faithful People

London, Aprils

Six thousand Canadian horses arc being shipped at Portland, Maine, for South Africa.

It is officially announced that Col. FI inner occupied Piotpotgietorust unopposed. General French possesses all the Commandants and enemy’s known guns in the south-east. A South African medal will bo issued shortly with 24 clasps, representing the different engagements of the men who served under General French. Generals lan Hamilton and Barton will probably receive five. Hartnell and Alderson arc driving the enemy southward and captured 100 wagons, 6000 cattle, and 1000 sheep. They found a pom-pom smashed at the bottom of a precipice. Many Boers surrendered on the Zulu frontier. London, April 7. A correspondent of the Paris newspaper Le Matin interviewed Kruger at Utrecht. The ex-President was sitting with an old Bible under his left hand and made mendacious charges against the British soldiers. He said that Botha was solicited to hear Lord Kitchener’s peace proposals, and listened in order to guage from the extent of the concessions ottered Britain’s desire for peace, and added “We will grant peace when asked to do so without a demand for our submission. We will never forego our independence. The Boers know that their old President is praying for them, and God will not permit his faithful ones to perish.”

London, April 8. Private T. H. Hempton, a New Zea--1 inder, died of dysentry at Henhardt. The Daily Telegraph correspondent reports that the Boers have shifted their capital to a place 35 miles northeast of Petersburg. Sergt Hamilton of the South Australian Bushmen was drowned at Kroonstad. St Keepers commando on Saturday ..captured seventy-five of the Fifth •' Lancers and Brabant’s Horse. Several commandos averaging two hundred men are harassing the country between Aberdeen and Orange Eivcr. A small commando is also in the vicinity of Carnarvon. Otherwise Cape Colony is clear of raiders.