THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 June 1901, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

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[Pee Peess Association.]

London, June 10. A detachment of Scobell’s Cape Mounted Hides rushed a kopje from whence the Boers were sniping and captured the batch of snipers. Fifteen wagonsful of Ermelo men and women were brought to Standerton, including Dr Everard, who says that all the fighters are willing to surrender if the leaders would permit them. The Mafeking branch of the South African League at a great meeting recommended the suspension of the Constitution's suppression of the Afrikander Bond.

200 Boer prisoners have been interned at Bermuda.

1000 American and 800 Canadian remounts were shipped to South Africa. Sir C. Sprig?, the Cape Premier, hoping to break down the racial animosity, is studying impartially, irrespective of party considerations, the development of the colony. Mr Smart, Commissioner of Works, intends to construct light railways wherever the prospects justify it, and will also carry out scientific irrigation,

Lord Kitchener declares that the statement that Wilson captured Beyer’s convoy last week is without foundation. The Times insists on the urgency of a reputable news agency, which circulated the statement, enquiring into the origin of what purported to be a precise narrative of facts. Scobell’s detachment, ■ besides the snipers, captured 13,000 rouhds of small arms ammunition.

Mrs Botha goes to London at her hus- { band’s instance. She will see Krngor and return to Transvaal in July. Sir Henley Hutchison concluded his tour of six towns in the western district of Cape Colony. He had a most encouraging x’eception from the Dutch. '[’he Times Capetown correspondent shat the extremists of both parties 'would rather abolish free institutions than see their opponents in office, but the situation is in no wise unpromising. Keceived this day at 9 20 a.m. London, June lOih. Kitchener reports that 2,640 Boers were killed, captured or surrendered during May. Eeoeived this day at 10.49 a.m. London, June 10; Smuts and Do Wet remain at Standerton awaiting Kruger’s reply to their telegrams.

The claims presented to the South African Compensation Commission by Germans, who had become burghers, but who did not fight alledge that their double nationality entitles them to German protection and compensation for expulsion.