The Boer War.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 4055, 22 May 1900, Page 3

The Boer War.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (United Pross Association.) LONDON, May 21. Commandant Delarey telegraphed to Pretoria that ho successfully engaged the relief column during tho whole of Wednesday, but one of his officers withdrew in the evening without his knowledge, and left a way open into the town. Advices received from Delagoa Bay state that the British captured the entire Boer force and guns outside Mafeking on the 17th. It is understood that the relief column was commanded by Colonel B. Mahon, covering 210 miles in 12 days. Commandant De Wet (uot tho famous fighting general of that name) offered to Wrrender with 1000 men at Lindley if •ent to their farms. They were bidden to surrender unconditionally. The Progressives at Pretoria, including members of the Judiciary, are seeking to depose Kruger and the Executive, with » view to tendering submission. The Esprcss states that Kruger personally telegraphed to Lord Salisbury in an exceedingly humble strain, in which he proposed certain terms of pence. The Queen was serenaded by a torchlight procession, headed by the First Life Guards’ Band, and tho Eton boys. On Saturday the “Te Deum ” was •Mg as an anthem in most of the churches. The Benchers of Gray’s Inn invited the Federal delegates to hear Lord William Cecil preach. Four thousand attended. SYDNEY, Yesterday. The surplus men left in camp after the Imperial bushmen were sent are likely t°be accepted as recruits for the British lf my- A number leave this week in charge of a shipment of horses to the Cape. NEW YORK, May 21. The Herald states that tho Transvaal I 1 rent a demand to Lord Roberts in •Inch they insist on the immunity of Gonial rebels being guaranteed. They threaten, in the event of a reto dynamitotho mines and destroy Johannesburg. The Relief of Mafeking. (Received 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 21. General Barton, from Taungs, wired I®Sir Alfred Milner that Mafeking was Sieved on Thursday. The War Office received confirmation ••the news from Baden-Powell.