THE BOER WAR.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 16. The captures at Reitz included Brebncr, Secretary to tho Boer Treasury ; Acton, Director of Telegraphs ; and Commandant Davill. There was .£IOOO in tho Treasury. Do Wet was absent. A Boer proclamation has been issuod at Losberg authorising surrenderors in batches to recruit in the refugee camps and then rejoin tho Boor forces. Ouida, in the Daily News, pleads tho clauso of Olive Schreiner, who is represented as imprisoned in a hut surrounded by a wire fence, guarded by sentinels. Mrs Schalkburgor has been taken to Pretoria. Lord Raglan, Under-Secretary for War, states that the Government aro sending a committee of ladies to tho refugee camps to report on the condition of tho women there.
Eighteen of SeoboU's prisoners have been sent to Graffreinet to be eourtmartialled. New York. July 16. Two thousand three hundred horses have loft New Orleans for South Africa. Large purchases of mules are also being mado. BOTHA'S PLEA. MEN WHO SHOOT WOUNDED WANT MERCY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 17. Botha has protested to Lord Kitchcnor against tho execution of rebels.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 160, 18 July 1901, Page 2
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184THE BOER WAR. Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 160, 18 July 1901, Page 2
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