IN AFRICA.

Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 697, 10 July 1900, Page 2

IN AFRICA.

THE HOSPITAL SCANDALS. APPOINTMENT CF A COMMISSION. KRUGER DETERMINED TO FIGHT. COLONIALS CAPTURED. London, July S. Trains are now running from Natal to Greylingstad, on the line through the Transvaal to Johannesburg. In the House of Commons Mr Balfour aunounced that Professor A. B. Church, President of the College of Physicians, Professor John Daniel Cunningham, Trinity College, Dublin, and Lord Justice Romer, will be appointed a Commission to inquire into the treatment of tbe sick and wounded in the hospitals in South Africa. Mr Chamberlain has informed New Zealand that he regretted the temporary difficulties in the hospital arrangements, but adds that ample supplies are now available. He has promised an inquiry into colonial complaints with reference to the treatment of the sick and wounded. He preferred that the expense of hospital attendance should be an Imperial charge. Mr Kruger informed a Daily Telegraph interviewer that he Would fight, while 500 burghers remained alive, in deference to the general wish. Mr Balfour- subsequently announced that he will enlarge the number of the Commission to five. Lieut. Bundle and a patrol of Carbineers have been captured in the vicinity of Pretoria. Major M. W. Bayley, a New South Wales special officer, has been captured foraging at Kroonstad. Sergeant Russell and Troopers Smith, Kearney and Auret, of New Zealand, are prisoners at Nboitsgedacht. New York, July 8. The Democratic Convention has expressed sympathy with the Boers. BRABANT OCCUPIES W O O M - BERG. SEVEN VICTORIANS AMBUSHED THEY REFUSE TO SURRENDER ONLY TWO ESCAPE. (Received July 9th, 5.40 p.m.) Capetown, July 8. General Brabant has occupied Woouiberg. While patrolling at Pirespoort seven Victorians were ambushed. They refused to surrender, and two escaped. Ono who was shot in the leg took refuge behind a stone and coolly kept on firing till a Boer crept behind and shot him in the head. Corporal Whelan and Troopers Fiulay, Ramsay, Francis Dureau, and David Bradfort, who were not wounded, were taken prisoners. PROTEST AGAINST THE HOSPITAL CHARGES. A NEW ZEALANDERS' EXPERIENCE. (Received July 10, 1.8 a.ni). London, July 9. Lieut. D'Arcy Chaytor, in a letter to the Times, protests against Mr Burdett-Coutts' alarming views in reference to the hospitals. He says they are misleading and cruel. He and 21 other New Zealanders were cured of enteric fever at Bloemfontein, where everything humanly possibly was done for the sick.