KRUGER A PRISONER AT DELAGOA BAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 196, 17 September 1900, Page 3

KRUGER A PRISONER AT DELAGOA BAY.

BRITISH WARSHIP ON THE WATCH. LORD ROBERTS' PROCLAMATION. KRUCEi'.'S RlrtriiTlGU RENDERS IIUEUa CAUSE HOPELESS. HO TO BE RELEASED TILL COMPLETE AND UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER 01' ALL REBELS. INTERVENTION IMPOSSIBLE. - OCCUPATION AND ANNEXATION A PROOF. GUERILLA WARFARE TO BE VIGOROUSLY SUPPRESSED. PEACE DECLARATION NOT FAR OIF. BOERS NOT SURRENDERING TO BE OUTLAWED. GENERAL FRENCH OCCUPIES ]3AKBERTON AND RELEASES BRITISH PRISONERS. (Received 16, 4.58 p.m.) London, September 15. At the instance of the British Consul who protested against the use of Delagoaßay as a base for Boer communications, Kruger was invited to the resi deuce of the Governor. Kg accepted the invitation and is now nominally «i prisoner under s'tict surveillance. Burger, the acting-President of the Transvaal, with the French Consul an<l military attache, called to see Kruger, butw-.rc. • - _ Tiioi'ii- j .... .• ijiag:. Dt/.gtC iis/. Lord s.iL'' '- pnoiii."■> • tion ill \ ."I il 1'• -../ it and llei-z, v-'i.L wi,(' • i'i>lves, r.jiicliu Polygon Sl'iv. fo s-nil i;-i i' , O. de:;fy, t!:'v ■: C ' T nect. n • . ■: " ' the hop ]: ■■ >ci i.s 1 ■- : teen ii.oMsaiiii Jiuers aw pri'-or. ■' j - vor.'i ij t r '' : : ■■■ " • 1

and that the Empire is determined t< complete the task undertaken. An] lingering doubt on this point that th< B Boers may hold must be dispelled bj the permanent manner in which the Republics had been occupied and an nexed. " He intends vigorously to suppress g guerilla warfare by every means which '.he customs of war prescribe. He points out that the measures he may be required to take will prove ruinous to the country, entailing endless suffering, is The Standard's Capetown correslt pondent states that Great Britain will . shortly declaro peace and summon the 1. Beers to surrender within a given period, failing which they will be treated as outlaws. General French has occupied Barberton and captured 100 prisoners, 43 locomotives, and a quantity of Mausers and ammunition, as well as cattle and three weeks' supplies. He also released 23 British officers and 59 men.