THE BOER WAR.
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London, August 16. Kitchener sent his proclamation with a letter to Steyn and Botha. The Morning Post’s Pretoria cqrres. pondent states the Boers are showing a general tendency to be captured. Hon Mr Balfour, in the House of Commons, said that not a man nor a horse would be withdrawn from South Africa unless the military situation justifies the step. The war was unduly prolonged, even from the standpoint of the Boers.
It is stated that Lyttelton's presence in South Africa is merely a precaution in the event of Lord Kitchener being taxed at all. Otherwise Kitchener will remain until all resistance is suppressed. A Committee in Switzerland arranged to send a doctor and six nurses to attend the wounded folk in the refugee camps. They were not allowed to leave Southhampton, the authorisations given by Lord Roberts in March having been re? scinded by the War Office, on the ground that all measures necessary to preserve health had now been taken.
The foreign Office declined the request that it should review the War Office** decision.
Colonel Goring inflicted losses on Kruitzinger, Erasmus, and Pypeir near Steynsburg.
Errsmus was mortally wounded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 August 1901, Page 2
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