The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 128, 26 March 1901, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, March 22. Two hundred of Do Wet’s and Fourie’s ragged burghers surrendered voluntarily near Dewetsdorp. One hundred and forty thousand sheep and 10,000 horses have been captured. Lord Kitchener has warned Botha that the terms of peace will be cancelled if they are nut accepted. The Boers in the Orange River Colony have disbanded and scattered. Mistaking a superior force of Boers for British, twenty-four members of the Cape Defence Force were captured at Winterburg. They were stripped and released.

The Government is manufacturing greatly improved cordite, and is also testing the qualities of a new rifle.

De Wet is reported to have gone to the Transvaal, after suspending the Free Staters’ operations until ho returns in a few days hence. Twenty thousand mounted men have been distributed in the four divisions of the Orange Colony. March 23. It is intended to send 1000 Boer prisoners to Madras and Bombay respectively. The modified proposals sent to Botha provide for licenses to retain the military; and firearms, where necessary for protection against tno natives, would be issued, and licenses would also be granted for sporting rifles. The Kaffirs were not to be enfranchised before representative government was established, and never to an extent to endanger the white population in predominance. The legal position of the coloured people would be similar to that of Cape Colony. De Wet unearthed at Senekal two of Commandant Prinsloo’s guns. March 24. In the House of Commons Mr Chamberlain stated that Botha had raised no specific objections to Lord Kitchener’s terms, but expressed strong objections against Sir A. Milner.