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The Times Delagoa correspondent states it is a matter for notoriety that President Kruger is in favour of peace on almost any terms, but dislikes per- j sonally initiating peace proposals.
Many desertions have taken place from Machadorp district, despite the colossal lies which Kruger is daily printing. .-He issues a daily bulletin containing accounts of British defeats, also statements of the plague devouring British officials. Lord Roberts has despatched a-^ column to meet Lieut.-General Baden* Powell, and repair the Pretoria-Rus-telegraph lines. General Cronje, a son ofthe distinguished prisoner, surrendered when ;ure the British really occupied Pretoria. Hans Eloff and Piet Kruger, grandsons of Kruger, have been disarmed !iy Lieut.-peneral Baden-Powell. They iromised to submit to British rule. INTERCEPTING DE WET. A cordon of British troop 3 has been established from Potchefstroom to He? idelluirg. It is intended ta intercept De Wet's force trekking north.
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Manawatu Herald, 19 June 1900, Page 2
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