The Transvaal.

Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

Colonel Fanshaw had a reargard fight with sixty Boers at Damsfontein. One New South Wales mounted , infantry man was killed. Captain Watson, seeing Private Robinson (New South Wales) fall, returned under a hot fire and carried him out of action on his own horse. A PLOT AGAINST LORD ROBERTS. Lord Roberts reports that the police have been for some time aware of a plot against himself, and on the 1 6th inst. arrested five Italians, four Greeks, and a Frenchman on a charge of plotting to explode a mine during the morning service on the 18th at St. Mary's Church Johannesburg. MR KRUGER IN FRANCE. Mr Kruger has exchanged tenminutes visits with M. WaldeckRousseau, the French Premier. The Fenian leader O'Leary, Major Mcßride, and Maude Conne, a young Irishwoman who ha 9 won a name for herself as a bitter opponent of England, were introduced to the exPresident, and made fiery speeches. Mr Kruger, by receiving a complimentary address from the Dreyfusite League has alienated many Nationalists. MISCELLANEOUS. Seventeen British splendidly repulsed a fierce Boer attack on Brakpan killing three of the enemy and capturing a flag. One hundred Boers in the Eastern Transvaal have signed a document offering to surrender if they are not exiled. Mr Johanne W. Colenbrander, managing director of the Colenbrander Metabele Development Company, is enrolling a British regiment iooo strong at Bulawayo. MOVEMENTS OF THE RAIDING LEADER. General De Wet and Mr Steyn are in the vicinity of Dewetsdorp in the east of the Orange River Colony, about twenty-five mites north-west of Wepener. A small garrison with two guns is stationed on the heights outside the town to prevent the Boers entering. Strong British forces hold all the drifts along the Orange River from Aliwal North to Orange River Station to prevent De Wet from raiding Cape Colony for recruits and supplies. The Boers hold a strongly fortified line from Ladybrand. near the Basutoland frontier, to Thabanchu, about forty miles to the westward and thirtyfive miles north of Dewetsdorp. Increased mounted forces are urgently needed by the British in the Orange River Colony. Colonel Bewicke-Copley, of the King's Royal Rifles, defeated 150 Boers at Greylingstad, on the Natal-Pretoria railway, sixty miles south-east of Johannesburg, with considerable loss. Much stock was captured from the enemy. MR KRUGER IN PARIS. Mr Krnger had an hour's interview with M. Delcasse, Minister for Foreign Affairs. The ex- President aiterwards visited the Hotel de Ville, where in the course of a speech he declared that the resistance of the Boers would be continued until justice'had been obtained. Meanwhile he would not cease to appeal for arbitration. Mr Kruger has accepted from M. Henri Rochefort, the notorious Republican journalist, a sword of honour for Cronje, subscribed for by admirers of the captured general. He also received a deputation of 1000 students. SEEKING INTERVENTION. The Paris correspondent of The Times states that Mr Kruger intends to visit Belgium, Holland, Germany, Hungary and Russia. He will appeal to the Czar to invite the Powers to intervene with the object of securing to the Boers honourable conditions of peace. DEEDS OF BOER MARAUDERS. Several Britishers' farms in Natal and Orange River Colony have been looted and burned, and their inmates turned out on the veldt. In one instance the owner, who was ill in bed with rheumatic fever, and had to be removed in a cart while his family walked twelve miles, and were kept without food for twenty-four hours. A WARNING TO IMMIGRANTS. Sir Alfred Milner, through the Colonial Office, emphasises the scarcity of employment, and the great cost of living in South Africa. Johannesburg contains many aliens Buspected of treachery; beuce the

difficulty of sanctioning the return of refugees. MISCELLANEOUS. Two thousand more Boer prisoners have been despatched to St. Helena. The Cape papers declare that the political and racial condition of the colony was never worse since the war began. Loyalists are clamouring for the application of martial law throughout the whole colony. Boer prisoners on parole at the Cape are circulating frightful stories of the barbarism of British soldiers with the view of inflaming the Dutch preparatory to the forthcoming Afrikander Conference to be held at Worcester, in Cape Colony.