BRITON AND BOER.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 439, 11 June 1902, Page 2

BRITON AND BOER.

By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, June 0. When tfie surrendered Boers reached Bloemfontein, they refused to shake hands with those who had surrendered previous to the declaration of peace. The Boers who came in at Vredefort expected that 15,000 troops would be present to witness them surrender. The surrenderers were surprised and gratified to find only General Elliott and his staff.

Thanksgiving services were held in many Anglican Churches in Cape Colony, and similar services in the churches and chapels throughout Great Britain, and also at the Embassies abroad.

Many Americans attended services on the Continent.

Commandant Hertzog remarked to Mr Bennett Burleigh, the Daily Telegraph correspondent, that Krause deserved all he got, and more. The Commandant stated that Krause ought to have observed the law, and fought openly in the field. All the Boers are delighted with the declaration of peace, and express their wish to set to work on farms.

Mr Davitt unveiled a monument at

Armagh to a pro-Boer Irishman killed

at the Modder river. lie subsequently said that the day would come when England would recognise that she was wrong in forcing war on the Boers. Bystanders becoming aggressive, the police interfered to prevent a fight.

MORE SURRENDERS,

DE WET’S FOLLOWERS CHEER THE KING.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Juno 9. Lord Kitchener reports that twonty-fivo hundred rifles were surrendered on Saturday and Sunday, 448 by Cape rebels, and tbo remainder chiefly from DeWet'B followers. All cheered the King heartily.

HOMEWARD BOUND.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, June 9, Fourteen hundred troops, representing the Army in South Africa, who are aboard tho transport Bavaria, are expected to arrive on the 25th, in time to take part in the Coronation festivities, if they make a fast passage.