CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 141, 18 June 1902, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

Br Elkctbio Tklkgraph— Uoptbioht. *— SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS. BENWBLK ADVICB FROM DE WET. PKB PBESS ASSOCIATION. London, June 16 The inmates of tfce concentration o*mp erected an *rch inscribed " Welcome to our Braves." De Wet was surreuodid by thousands of worn* n and children struggling te slake hard with him. He thanked th ; women, •aying, "that if they h d >ee.. hss staunch the burgfce a would U„v« surrendered long ago. We are now for the first time ULder the British Government;" adding "I am under it, I aving fought till there ia no mote hope. It m is a thoroughly lawful Government today. G;d has thus decided, sumu'eni«g us as Chris ian people to be f-ith-ful to our ne«r Government. Let us submit to Ged'sovtrruling nil I ex- ~~ hor* ytu to serve the new Govenment loyally wi h myself aul the burghers." Commandants Pricsloo, Fro aem n, Oionje, V«imaas a> d Racteebach brought to Winburg 850 belonging to Winburg, Senekal, L dybiand, and Fiksburg. Tie majority bava rifles, but the bulk cf their ammueition has bean epeLt i i game shooting sine? ptace was proclaimed. Trey were the best dressed of all the commandos, ani tbeir hursts are in apletdid cinditioD. Two Australian transports, with 500 troops aboarJ, hiv« arrived at Durbm. General De Wes states that 'he c«mmandoi never slept in the same spot on constcu'ive nights. The movements of a Biit'sh column were known to all commandos within a radius of seventy miles the sami day. He admitted < hat he bad himstlf used w —the) sjambok, the moral effect of which nceeJed other punishments THS MaUONAL BURGHER. 800UX3. Seceived 17, 7 p.m. London, June 16. Tfce offic.re of tHe National Burgher Scouts dined at Pretoria. (YW.*l Giionard, ia the course of a speech, s*id he was a Fieoch Canadian and was sitting between two Frenchmen, exCommandants and Cellars. He d'lat d upon Canadian free'om,! ing!arcing the prtmieisbip of Sir Wilfrid Ltuiiei, bim.'elf a Fiencii Canadian, over tire whole Dominion <.f Canada, as proving the liberali'y of the Cots i ution. The speech caued a dtepimpress'on. The N»tiooal Scouts are disbanding to-day.