THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 October 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

(pee pebss association-copyright)

Reported death of De Wet.

Anglophobia in Europe

London, October 21. Several hundred Boers above Babango are in a starving condition. The country is denuded. Eouche has issued a proclamation that natives found on farms unprovided with passes from their masters will be shot as spies. A Boer named Lewis was tried and shot £*t Potchefstroom for complicity in the murder of two surrendered soldiers, also in connection with the murder of Kaffirs at Fre vers tad. The'Canadian Scouts, after a sharp fight, captured a laager containing fool and ammunition and several Boers near Balmoral. ' The local force fought Yanzyl’s commando in rough country eastward of Yryburg from dawn to neon on the 18th Four were killed, including two rebels, and several wounded The nine captured at Buffolshoek on the 16th included Yanderwaet, late the Landdrost at Parys. Received this day at 9 2 a.m, London, October 21. Many additional Boer prisoners at Ceylon are volunteering for service in the British Army, Contradictory reports are circulated at Natal regarding Da Wet. Recent prisoners persist in stating that he died of wounds. There is a rabid outbreak of Anglophobia in' the German and Austrian newspapers which contain violent denunciations of what they term Chamberlain’s hangman’s policy.