THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 August 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

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Twenty Yeomanry Captured.

A Threat against natives.

London, August 2. Lord Kitchener reports that 200 Boers .surrounded and captured, and afterwards released a patrol consisting of twenty Yeomanry at Boom River, Orange River Colony.

After the patrol surrendered the Boers shot all the native scouts accompanying the patrol and also killed a wounded Yeoman in mistake for a Cape boy. General French reports that Commandant Kraitzingor has written announcing his intention to shoot all the natives in the British employ, armed or unarmed. Many cases of the cold-blooded murder of natives are occurring in Cape Colony. Cost of the War. 40,000 Troops likely to be Recalled. London, August 2. The Lords concurred in the Lord Roberts’ grant. Lords' Salisbury and Spencer eulogising his services. The Sixty-Million Loan Bill passed through Committee. Lord Stanley stated that between April Ist and the end of July the war cost 25% millions. The expenditure in July was a million and a quarter a week. Speaking on the Loan Bill, Sir M. Hicks-Beach said that the sums voted for the war would suffice till the middle of February, or longer if things went well. It was unlikely to be necessary to borrow again during this financial year. Already the war expenditure was considerably reduced, while there was reason to anticipate a larger reduction soon. This remark is interpreted to mean the early recall of 40,000 troops. Featherstonhaugh scoured the fertile country between Rustenburg and Zecrust and found hundreds of farmholders quietly pursuing agriculture. He made large captures of stock and immense quantities of concealed grain and mealies, which he removed or destroyed.