The Transvaal.

Manawatu Herald, 13 September 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

BULLER'S ADVANCE. General Buller's troops on Monday passed east of Lydenburg, and crossing the Mauchberg hills, cannonaded the enemy. The Boers, on their withdrawal from Lydenburg, took twenty loads of ammunition. FIGHTING AT KRUGERSDORP. Major-General Fitzroy Hart defeated the Boers near Krugersdorp, twenty miles west of Johannesburg. It is believed that Commandant Theron was amongst the killed, since letters from General De Wet giving important information were found in the pockets of a corpse on the battlefield. BOER RAIDERS. Incessant attempts have been made chiefly by Commandant • Theron's commando, to derail trains by dynamiting^the lines. The districts, in which the attempts were made have been promptly punished. TRANSVAAL'S CONCESSIONS. The Capetown correspondent of 41 The Times" says that Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner of South Africa, will issue a proclamation stating the Great Britain will consider on their merits any concessions granted by the Transvaal Government. Any that were granted illegally or are prejudicial to the public good will be modified. COMPROMISING CORRESPONDENCE. Correspondent seized at Pretoria shows that the Netherlands Railway Company transferred its workships into arsenals for the manufacture of projectiles, paid its employees who were on commando service, and worked the Cape-Natal railway under the Boers, subsequently destroying the lines as the federal troops retreated. MISCELLANEOUS. The Boers captured a post-cart containing two thousand replies by Major - General Baden-Powell to congratulations he had received on the defence of Mafeking. Natives report that ex-President Kruger is collecting arms with a view to surrendering. URGED TO SURRENDER. Many prominet Transvaal burghers are urging ex- President Kruger to surrender. BOERS SURRENDERING. Finding the bush veldt to the northeast of Pretoria uninhabitable, theBoers in the vicinity of Warm Batbs \

station are negotiating terms of surrender in order to save their herds. PROTEST. The Boer troops near Lydenburg have heliographed to General Bailer protesting against annexation of the Transvaal untill General Louis Botha is conquered* BOTHA'S TAUNT. The resistance to General Buller's progress in the country around Lydenburg is now so feeble that General Louis Botha, the Boer Commander-in-Chiet, has taunted his troops with being cowards and abandoning the strongest position they have held since they occupied the Tugela heights. BADEN-POWELL. Lieut. -General Baden-Powell has been appointed chief of the Transvaal police.