CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 115, 31 May 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

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BOER WAR. EX-PRESIDENT KROGER A 8 AN AUTHOR. FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 30, 9.11 a.m. London, May 29. Mr. Kruger is pr- paring a book which, it is s-iid, will implicate weli known continental officia's and Englishmen on the grounds of treich-ry in connection with the war. The Boers have evacuated Steynsburg, and are trying to esc ape south, BOER BRUTALITY TO NATIVES. Received 30,9.21 a.m. London, May 20. The Boers are strongly enforcing the native hut tax under the riflea of the Middleburg garri-on, They brutally fl g aiid threaten to ext°rm : nate the coloured scouts imployed by the British.

lARGE SURRENDERS OF BOERS. SHARP FIGHTING NEAR BETHEL. PROTECTING TOWJSM IN THE EASTERN DI3TRCTS, RTceiv-irt 30, II.U {Jib. London, May 30. Two hundred B era hive surrendered at Pilapye, and firty-two waggons'"ul of men, wom<n and children at Tuli. Oi mmanda't with 400 men, a't-ckerf Colonel Plnmei's convoy Binthwnrds of Be'ho- on Siturd j After a sl a:p engagement the r.nimy were repulsed. S x Biers were killed and thirty wounde-1. Commandant Kruitzingpr is moving eastwards. Th*; Town Guards at Tat'kastid, Mal'euo and Qioinstiwn (in Eastern C>pe Cdony) havi manned t-enches, and sra in reidiness if afUckr d.