THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 December 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] London, December 22.

The children of the Rhine provinces sent Kruger 10,000 marks as a Xmas present for the Boer children. Commaodants Fouehe and Myburg, with 800 men, are southwards of Barkley East.

Colonel Munroe captured 15 of Myburg’s commando. Dr Leyds, in commenting on Lord Boseberry’s speech, declares that Morgondool was court-martialled and shot for urging the Boers to desert. The Times shows the utter falsehood of this statement. Commandant Hasbrook and two others were killed during the encounter with Barker’s columns at Doornberg, and several were captured.

Lord Kitchener states that the Boers are reported to have murdered 87 Kaffirs iu the Kimberly district, and 28 northeast of Orange; and the natives allege that the Boers rolled a Kaffir driver belonging to the captured Bustenberg convoy in a sail and piled bags of oats sprinkled with paraffin and burnt the man alive.

Four, including Piet Cronje’s son, surrendered at Yentersdorp.

Some of the leaders at Ermelo are explaining to the commandos the desperate state of affairs. Doran has driven Weasels, Kruitzinger’s successor, across the Kraal Biver. New York, Dec 23.

The Herald, in interviewing Woolmarans, elicited the information that if England would send a peace representative to the Hague, the delegates would state their desiderata. It was impossible to surrender without communicating with the Boers in the held after Sleyn’a and Schalkburgot’s July proclamation. London, Dec 23. Canada, sends a held hospital with transport equipment to South Africa. Kruilzinger was wounded while trying to rescue a comrade.