The Transvaal.

Manawatu Herald, 14 June 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

9 MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY Sir hundred Boers have surrendered to Major-General Rundle. Four thousand have gone to the rugged country around Bethlehem, in the north-eaet of the Orange River Colony.

The Boers reported that General De Wet, with a commando thirteen hundred strong, is marching on Johannesburg. It is officially reported that the Boers have destroyed the railway at Roodevat, north of Kroonstad, in Orange River Colony, Three of the enemy's columns are reported to be near Horoingspruit, 18 A miles north of Kroonstad. ' GENERAL BULLER. General Buller, referring to the en* v gagement on Friday near Botha's Pass and Inkwelo Hill, telegraphed to the War Office on Sunday as follows : — u I find that the enemy, who were two thousand strong, abandoned a carefully-prepared position, and retired twenty six miles north-west. ■ " The supply^ and baggage waggons having arrived, after arduous work through the mountains, up Botha's Pass, we advanced to-day, meeting > some opposition, but putting the enemy to flight. " The African Light Horse drove a strong position. The troops fought bravply, and now hold a position commanding the junction of the Gauavley and Klip Rivers. The position now held by General Buller'a force is within Transvaal territory, about nine miles due west of Majuba Hill. His troops have | crossed over the northern extremity of the Biggarsberg ranges. GENERAL HUNTER. Lieutenant-General Sir * . Archibald Hunter's column, which invaded the Transvaal from the western border, has reached Ventersdorp about twenty miles north-west of Potchelstroom. THE RHODESIAN FOUCE. Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Carriogton, Commander of the Rhodesian Field Force is marching sooth with all speed. IN SWAZILAND. A report has been received ftsm Delagoa Bay that a British force baa reached Breraeredorp, the principal town in Swaziland. t CHECKING THE RAIDERS. Lieutenant-General Rundle, whose division has been operating to the east of the railway, and Lieutenant General Foreatier- Walker, in general. charge of the lines of communication, have sent troops to reinforce already at Kroonstad, a". Bb^. cfjfcamahdo having appeared to tie' nonhward. LANG'S NEK. _ Router's Agency reports'that on the • 2nd inst. General Buller summoned ~" the Boers now entrenched in the vicinity of Lang's Nek to surrender unconditionally. An armistice ot three days was allowed to enable General Christian Botha, who is in command at this point, to communicate with the authorities at Pretoria, and receive his instructions. Later reports states that Lang's Nek force has refused to surrender. The Boers refused General Boiler's preferred chance to return to their farms if they surrendered their artll'ery. BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURED. Information has come to hand that on Thursday last an engagement wks fought with the Boers at Roodeval, in Orange River Colony, where the enemy has interfered with the railway 'ana telegraph lines. . .. During the engagement Colonel Baird Douglas and fifteen Derbyshire militiamen were killed and Colonel Wilkinson and fifty-nine privates were wounded. — Later details show that after. Colonel ■)ougla*'s men had been killed and a large number wounded the remainder of the fourth battalion of the Derbyshire Regiment, numbering beany seven hundred men, were captnred by , the enemy. / BRITISH PRISONERS. ' News has been received that 151 British officers and 3500 men have been released at Pretoria. . THE BOND. , The Afrikander Bond Congress has broken np. ' ;..•■•■ " , Only ten of the members supported Mr Schreiner's policy of loyalty to the • Crown. BATTLE AT HEILBJCOH. * Lieutenant-General Lord Methuea's Division was engaged onrndty last'at a point ten miles sooth of Heilbron, in the north-east of Orange 1 River Colony. The result of bis operations tatfftot transpired.. ;. ii.,-* GENERAL BULLER. General Buller's concession of an armistice to the enemy is criticised as enabling the force which he had surrounded to escape, with its guns. The present situation f ihe British troops have turned the Boer positions in the Drakensberg ranges, and forced the Boers to retire into the . Transvaal in the direction of Standerton. On Sunday night the British troops occupied a defile at the junction of the Klip river and the Ganslvlei, anticipa* ting three thousand Boers, armed w^b. heavy guns, who were dispersed by the movement. la the engagement six men were killed on the British side and «BW wounded. . " PUNISHMENT OF REBELS. The Hon. W. P. Schreiner, Premier of Cape Colony, intends to latrodoO* into Parliament a Bill pravidSng? for the disfranchisement pf all rebels ka period of five years. NATIVE LOYALTY. -jW Sixty chiefs of South African nativ|§, representing the tribes of Natal an*fl Zululand, met at Maritzburg, and expressed their loyalty tp the Queen and their admiration of Mr Chamberlain's policy. ■* Tne chief Amangwani has contriduted to the funds in aid of the wounded British troops. SURRENDER OF BOERS. Reuter's Agency reports that fifteen hundred Boers surrendered to Bri-gadier-General Brabant at Ficksburg, on the Basutoland border, in the east of Orange River Colony.

Lieotenant-General Sir Archibald Hunter's division captured 250 Boers at Ventersdorp, in the south-west of the Transvaal. The residents at Potchefstroom, in the same district, and at Rustenburg, further away to the north, are ready to submit.