GENERALS CAPTURED.
An official message states that Major-General Hutton has captured General Botha and others, thirty miles west of Kroonstad.
Major-General Hutton's colonials captuied Field-Cornet Gassen, five Zarps (Johannesburg policemen) and seventeen Boers thirty miles from Kroonstad.
It is understood that the General Botha captured by Major-General Hutton's forces is a brother of General Louis Botha, the Commander-in-Chiet.
Generals Dupreez and Daniels have surrendered with forty followers to Lord Methuen at Hoopstad, in the north-western portion of the Free State. OCCUPATION OF LINDLEY. It is officially announced that MajorGeneral lan Hamilton's cavalry has occupied Lindley, forty-five miles east of Kroonstad on the Valsch river. [Lindley was recently chosen as the fresh capital of the Free State.] PRESIDENT STEYN. After having a prolonged conference with President Kruger at Pretoria, President Steyn returned to the Orange Free State. THE NEW BOER CAPITAL. The Transvaal Volkstaad has endorsed the proposal for the transfer of the seat ot Government from Pretoria to Lydenburg. Already the official archives have been removed to the new capital. COMMANDOES GATHERING. The commandoes under Generals Botha, Delarey, and Ollivier are now at Rhenoster river, about forty miles north of Kroonstad. They are holding an entrenched position, and have destroyed the bridge that spanned the river. NATAL. The Boers in north-east /Natal are retreating before General Buller's forces in the direction of Majuba Hill. General Buller, who is now at Newcastle, has reported to the War Office that seven thousand Boers have retreated northward. Of this number a thousand went to Wakkerstroom, in Transvaal territory, I about twenty-five miles behind Lang's Nek. Others went to the Free State. Those who remain in Natal form a disorganised rabble. LANG'S NEK REACHED/ It is officially announced that the cavalry under Lord Dundonald has reached Lang's Nek, the entry to the Transvaal from the extreme north of Natal. NAVAL PRECAUTIONS. A British gunboat stationed at Delagoa Bay proceeds to sea each night for a distance of seven miles. The reason for this movement is stated to be that a conspiracy is suspected to exist for the blowing up of vessel in thfe darkness should she remain at her moorings, as in the case of the destruction of the American battleship Maine, in Havana Harbour, Caba.
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Manawatu Herald, 22 May 1900, Page 2
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372GENERALS CAPTURED. Manawatu Herald, 22 May 1900, Page 2
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