CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 11 March 1902, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

The Transvaal. KRUGER’SDISGUST. Ex-President Kruger is bitterly disappointed at President Roosevelt’s declaration that America will not intervene with Great Britain in the conflict in South Africa. He declares he will not seek further intervention, but will let the Boers fight to a finish. Wessels and Woolmarans, the Boer delegates to America, have cabled advising Kruger to recommend the Boer Generals to confer with a view of arranging terms. The delegates’ presence in Washington attracts little attention. A MISTAKEN ESTIMATE. In the House of Commons, the Eight Hon. Sir J. Brodrick, Secretary of War, confessed he had been unduly sanguine regarding his estimate of the Boers in the field. It was impossible to distinguish between fighters and non-fighters, unless they were very old or very young. All surrenderors were liable to a severe penalty under the commando law. REBELS CAPTURED. The rebels, under Vandermervo, were nearly surrounded in the Vryburg district. Vandermerve escaped. Thirteen rebels arid three Transvaalers were captured. SEIZURE OF AMMUNITION. Colonel Rimington’s column discovered in a cave near Reitz 800,000 rounds of Martini-Henry ammunition, 10,000 Lee-Metford cartridges, hundreds of shells and fuses, a Maxim gun, two heliographs, and quantities of miscellaneous stores, 't his is supposed to have been General De Wet’s reserve. MISCELLANEOUS. Since the 4th inst. thirty-five prisoners have been captured at Reitz, Two irregulars were convicted by court-martial at Pretoria and shot for shooting surrendered Boers, Latest. DEPORTING" 1000 BOERS. The Bavarian has sailed from Durban for India with a thousand prisoners. COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE. The y Natal Assembly strongly favors compulsory military service. THE RAND MINES. Thirteen hundred head of stamps are working on the Rand, but native labor is scarce. BOERS PROTEST AGAINST THE WAR. A further batch of Boer prisoners at Hawkin’s Island, Bermuda, as a protest against the continuance of the war, took the oath of allegiance to Great Britain. A party of other prisoners thereupon attempted to drown them in a great sound, but the military guard frustrated the attempt and the assailants were imprisoned.