CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 194, 29 August 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

♦ BOER WAR.

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,*, GKNKKAL ITEMS. PER PEESS ASSOCIATION. London, August 27. In reply to his proclamation Lord Kitchener has received a long letter from S'eyn setting out the arguments of the Boer cause. The ex President 'Siys they will continue to fight. Lord Kitchener has also received a le'.tfr from De Wei to the same effect. B.<tha in his letter to Lord Kitchener protests Against the proclamation, and says he intends to continue fighting. Lord Kitchener, commenting on the letters, says that nevertheless the number of surrenderors lately has increased considerably. Mr. Kruger, in an interview with 'the Daily TWeyrajoA correspondent, said the ifsue of Lord Kitchener's proclamation was the blackest crime, and without a pretext. The Boers are still regularly governed and systematically led. The proclamation would intensify resistance. The story of a conspiracy of the Republics against Great Britain was an abominable lie—"l proclaim it! before the Almighty," declared the ex- ! •President, " and my witnef sfs are Lord I Salisbury and Mr. Chamberlain. They know it was we who did our utmost to avert bloodshed," and he added, "We j are now ready to conclude peace on a basis, a give and take basis ; independence for the Republics, and a free pardon for the Colonial Afrikanders. We ore making reasonable sacrifices, and giving satisfactory guarantees." Lord Kitchener's weekly report is that 32 Boers were killed, 24 wounded, 139 taken piisoners, and 185 surrendered, the majority northwards of Magaliesberg Hill, including Mr. Kruger's nephew; also that 116 rifles, 9000 rounds of ammunition, 245 waggons, 286 horses, and 6615 cattle were raptured. Small bands of Bo°rs are appearing about the Drakensburg Mountains on the Natal frontier.

There is a general tendency of the invaders in the Cape Midlands to shift westwards.

Lord Milner has arrived at Capetown. NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. LORD MILNER AT CAPETOWN. Receives 28,10.43 p.m. London, August 28, Of the Seventh New Zealand Contingent Lieutenant Lieca an<l SergeantMajir Love were killed at Vereeniging m Saturday, and Sergeant-Major Lickett and Private Helin severely, and Lieutenant Wbiteley slightly wounded.

•Two rebels, Ignatius Ne' andOhategan, were sentenced tuba shot for treason and murderously firing On troops at Camdebnn, in Cope Colony. Four others were sentenced to penal servitude for life in the Bermudas. J. Merriman, a Cape ex-Minister, was arrested at his farm at St. Ellenbosch, and remains there on parole. Capetown, August 28.

Lord Milner had an immense reception at Capetown. In the course of a speech he laid emphasis on the statement that the future of the country was in the hands of the loyalists, whose miss : on was to estiblist one of a group of free and independent nalions, indissolubly federated under the flag of the Empire. He added that the Imperial policy in regard to South Africa would continue unchanged.

ATTACK ON A BRITISH CONVOY. ; CAPTURE AND SURRENDER OF BOERS. Received 28, 1043 am. I London, August 28. Lord Kitchener reports that a convoy from Kimberley to Griquatown was attacked on Saturday near Rooikipji, Of the Yeomanry escorting; the convoy, nine were killed, and 23 wounded. Tbe Bofrs even'nally were repulsed. Colonel Sir Henry Rawlinsnn, in a forty minutes gnllop eastward of Edenburg, captured 18 Transvaalarp. Twenty-one Boers surrendered at Abfontsnek, confessedly as the resu't of Lord Kitchener's proclamation. BOER DISAGREEMENTS. Received 23, 0.15 a.m. London, August 28. Merriman's arrest by the military occurred at night, and was due to certain proceedings on his firm. The Daily Telegraph correspondent states that Lord Kitchener's proclamaMon is causing angry quarrels, some Boers wishing to surrender. A considerable number in one commando eastward of Bloemfontein were arrested and disarmed.