TRANSVAAL RAID.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1932, 14 November 1906, Page 2

TRANSVAAL RAID.

THE FREEBOOTERS. PH*-SH PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Capetown, Nov. 12,

Some believe Ferreira is an adventurer who, towards the olobb of the Kroger regime, removed the pegs from a great miniog property at Johannesburg. A considerable number of armed natives accompany Ferriera.

London, Nov. 12. Lord Milner, interview-d, »«‘d tbe ra'd was trifling, and was 9 m*re polio- maier. Is was very unlikely troops would be re-

qaired. The D *ily Mail say* Farreira two pa ties of freebo 'ter* to orosa tQe German frontier and join him. Moritz leader of the Boers in the etn ploy of Garmane, with a view to persuading Transvaal adventurers to enlist as t'onspors drivers, promised them that in 1904 or 1905 their ultimate return to the Transvaal would bB via tbe British border as invaders,

GERMANS ASKED TO CAPTURE FREEBOOTERS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 11,46 a.m., Nov. 13,

London, Nov, 13. Mr Churchill, replying to Mr Balfour, said the Governor of German South West Africa had been asked to capture the freebooters if they return thither. Mr Dalziel inquired if any information had been received showing that the socalled raid was engineered from Johannesburg in order to divert attention from the Chinese labor question. (Loud Opposition laughter.)

A BAND OF RASCALS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 12.1 a.m,, Nov, 14.

Capetown, Nov. 13. Ferreira headed off from Upington eastwards. A German desperado named Jensen is Ferreira's lieutenant. Several of his followers are wanted by the German authorities, Troopers Cooper and Bellew, wounded at Abeab, have succumbed,