CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

Manawatu Herald, 30 January 1902, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

The Transvaal.

SOME IMPORTANT CAPTURES. Lord Kitchener reports that General Ben Viljoen was captured in the neighbourhood o£ Lydenburg. His capture will doubtless have a considerable eftect on the Boers northwards of the. railway. Colonels Rawlinson and Keir, during anight march from Tafelkop to Alienkopje, captured thirty men belonging to Strydon’s commando. A force of National Scouts to the southward of Groot Olifants Station, on a night march, captured 'eleven Boers, including Commandant Hans Botha.

Colonel Wilson on Friday night captured Commandant Strydon and twenty men at a farm at Frankford. A strong force at the town attacked Wilson, enabling most of the prisoners to escape. The Boers were repulsed with ten killed. Colonel Wilson’s casualties numbered eight. General Hamilton captured twelve Boers at Boschmansfontein. Corporal Dupriez and thirteen men surrendered at Irene. Piet Bezuidenhout, landdrost of Heilbron, and Commandant Mentz were captured in Orange River Colony. The surrenderers included FieldCornet Boks. FIGHTING IN THE' NORTH. . Commandant Beyers on the 22nd seized a concentration camp at Pietersburg, 177 miles north of Pretoria, and carried off a large number of sur? renders. He afterwards attacked Pietersbury, but was repulsed, losing six men. CAPTURE OF VILJOEN. A party of Intelligence agents, while searching for the notorious trajtor, train-wrecker and ex-guardsman Jack Hindon, brought about the skirmish which resulted in the ■ capture of General Viljoen and two of his aides. Hindon’s whereabouts was not discovered. DE WET AGAIN IN TROUBLE* General De Wet’s horse3‘are in bad condition. Constant harassing by the British compels him to be continually on the move. ' AUSTRALIAN HORSES. Several shipments of Australian horses have reached South Africa in very poor condition. Argentine horses arrived in a much better state. TERMS OF SETTLEMENT. Professor Wood, of Sydney University, a member of the Anti-War Society, addressing the Political Labour League, urged that Britain should abandon its demand for unconditional surrender of the Boers, a demand which it was sought to justify by saying that it was supported unanimously by Australia. He urged that the terms suggested by Lord Kitchener be offered to tha Boers, that the various races in South Africa should be brought together, and given self-government similar to that enjoyed by Australia, which would be the truest patriotism and the truest Imperialism. MISCELLANEOUS. In consequence of the discovery of tick in Queensland contingent horses, the animals were stopped at the border, A trooper who had deserted from Nesbitt’s Horse has been captured and shot. All Natal rebels Avlll in future be tried by court-martial instead of by a special Civil Court. Commandant Snyman, when taken, had a quantity of dynamite, with which he intended to explode the railway at Nysistroom, north of Pretoria. Three hundred prisoners at St. He|ena, including a number of large landowners, have volunteered for military service in South Africa. Fully a thousand would gladly serve, notwithstanding the Nationalists’ denunciations; Latest. BRITISH CAPTURES. Colonel Plumer has captured thirtysix Boers. General Bruce Hamilton captured a laager at Nelspan. A FLYING START. Major Wools Sampson located the Bethel, Ermelo, and Standerton commandoes at Nelspan at dawn. At the approach of the British the Boers fled and were pursued miles. Twelve were driven to blockhouses and surrendered. The total result was—two Boers killed, four wounded, and eighty-two unwounded prisoners, including Field Cornet De Villiers, Captain Dejaager, of the Staats Artillery, and Ledejaage, member of the Volksraad. Three British were wounded.