THE WAR.
KRUGER BLUSTERS LORD KITCHENER OCCUPIES PRIESKA. Londoy,. March 20. Kruger, in the course of an interview, said he did not expect outside* lielp. Fo.rty thousand Boers, said, were fighting to conquer or die, and woula accept no convention. Ho claimed absolute independenceand an amnesty for disloyalists. Kruger recently admitted that the Boers were unable to keep the field: for a month longer. Lord Kitchener has ocoupied Prleska _ unopposed.. . The rebels surrendered.. It is reported that Major-General: Sir Frederick Barrington, forms a field force of 5000 to protecUßfrodesia, including 2500 Australian Irishmen. The 2nd New Zealanders marched from Carnarvon to Yanyksoley, sojrffjKfifty miles north, in 24 hours. Corporal. Raff, * at Dreifontein,, bayoneted a. Boer firing under the white flag, and was immediately promoted to be sergeant. Lord Methuen’s movement. ftom, Kimberly is interpreted as an advanceto Pretoria via Mafelting and Rustenberg, or along the Vaal River via*. Klerksdorp.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22216, 22 March 1900, Page 2
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