The Daily News. THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1900. THE CAPTURE OF JOHANNESBURG.
The brief official announcement that Johannesburg had been captured, which was cabled through yesterday afternoon, came in some measure as a surprise. It was scarcely expected that the golden city of the Transvaal would fall so swiftly into the hands of the British, and the most sanguine local strategist hardly counted on such an evidently easy occupation. Taken together with the other news contained in our latest war cables, this announcement may well indicate the all but complete collapse of the Boer resistance, and the certainty of a very early, if not an immediate, conclusion of hostilities. That this will be hailed with rejoicing on every hand goes without saying, as even the partisans of the Boers must have Recognised ere this how hopeless was the fight they were waging; while the Boers themselves will be glad to reach the conclusion of a struggle that should never have been commenced, and which has involved them in countleas loss and fruitless sacrifice,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 100, 31 May 1900, Page 2
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172The Daily News. THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1900. THE CAPTURE OF JOHANNESBURG. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 100, 31 May 1900, Page 2
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