The Transvaal.
Lon t don t ,' May 7.
The Times states that many British soldiers in South Africa, more especially the Mounted Infantry,.have grown staled and require a rest. Frrsh men erdindispenssble in order to finish 'Up the war bv the end of August. St. James’ Gazette re-echoes the statement of the Times that England i. 3 making inadequate efforts to end, the’. v r wa r. T :, e Pall Mail Gazette a simitar view. . ‘' Fifteen thousand troops bs! w en K'maMpoort ami Pretoria finc| it difficult-to pi-otco' t u, e railway. The British in Sontb Africa during April were no foil vs ; —eightj'-six were Uillid in action, fbr'y-tour died wounds, 389 died of disease, thirty sis: died -ns the result of acciden wounded, a- d 2315 invalided hsme;' The Royal Engineers, under Colonel Rice, erected bu'l t proof block-houses jjr.mghout Midtl'cburg dis*rict and elsewhere, condsting rf two-.sheets. 0 corrngatnd iron with st-mes between. Mr Brodrick stated in the TT'n o e °t Coo-in >ns th-t aito--eth ,r 396 foreigners have been captured during the South African, campaign, including forty-five Frenchmen, f orty-lwo Russians, tbirtysix Americans, and 973 Germans. 15C out of the total claimed to te burghers- •’ **: Scattered bands of Boer raiders an still operating in the northern r«nc| central perts of Capo Colony. " Kruit winger wrecked end burned a supply train near Stormherg. Shortly afterwards the raider 'encountered &. British force at Uriefontein, f r-ud' sustained losses. ' Commandoes !<>d by Scheepera and Malan having been hustVd in. the mid--' laud districts, have retreated eastwards. May 8. ’" Lord Kitchener reports eleven more Boers killed, seventy.reight taken prisoners, thirty-one surrenders, ijj. twelve-pounder, a nine-pounder and Max'tn gun and 22,000 rounds.; p t £saaii arms ammunition captured. Lord Kitchener’s despatch detailing the operations up to the beginnh'g of March mentions the valuable services rendered by C-otanet Cradock, Cxntahig Orawshaw a->d (jhaytor, Surgeon-Captairi Godfrey, Lieufen-nt Somerville, Sergeant P. Tudor, Quartermaster Sergeant l Stephenson, and Tr-.'-'g’srs Hil!: - , Wi-idg'te, [I. Hirler, and J. Steven,-., .all New Ze-danders. ' Botha, after the failure of the peace negotiations, published a letter in 'he Fnnelo Post newspaper urging the’ continuance of the war, and asserting that Britain desires to suppress; the Afrikander*. ■ He declared that tlis, voice of the people would be totally disregarded under the Council Of Administration, the offlnals of which would be nominated by the members o| the Cmncd. Britain ought (o acceptthe responsible St te debts' of the' tv/o Republics, instead.of walking array with the assets. : ' :
Mrs Botha visits Europe to inform Mr Kruger of the hopelessness of resbtancOj arid of the terr ble state of the country* She carries him a pathetic letter fror-. Mrs Kruger. ' ' ■ ‘" 'vj May 9. Botha and Ben Yiljoen Kava Carolina. ' » The Times states that Colonel Plumer marched from Pretoria, and held the drift at Oliphants river for ten days!imprisoning many Boers in a densely wooded and waterless semicircle, driving them into'the hands of General Kitchener and columns from Middleburg. ■ I * Mr Bennett Burleigh says' that the Boers hid in the bu«h with their stock’ aod fled b -fore Colonel Plumer, leaving 350 of their wives and children, : were in a lower and dirtier stats than'theKaffirs. The Boers are astounded abs dish arteried at their fastnesses beinf. invaded. There were Mi) captured*, besides fifty surrendered, i V:> f Captain VUHis, of ihe West Australian Bushmen, with 260 picked men ani horses, pursued Commandant-ihlatthew Pretoriua and 300 men in 1 the directioi, of Waterhurg, and captured 1 thirty waggons, 1,000 cattle and twpnty-sevep Boers. ' K.i ' • f n '' ; K 'j} Wellington, 9. Colonel Runt and Captain EL - Nuttall, two Imperial officers, arrived by thfe Warrimoo in connection with tht purchase of remounts for South Africa?, and will visit all the agricultural centred. -' ' Capk Town, May B.f Sir A. Milner, speaking at a banquet, given to him by the Cape Town Corpora! tion; denied the possibility of thb weakening of the Imperial policy' if South Africa, 'since Britain was full 7 determin'd to leave no'room foK tbs* recrudescence of Du ch ambition. ' Sir A. Milner declared that he left for his holiday far happier than he woulfi have done six months *go. ' The anerayib strength wos slowly ebbing under Jjrirdl Kitchener’s firm grasp, and the. 'firtft beginnings- (if orderly civil govern merrit and the ■ resumption of’lnduatt'y weijfe visible. He was confident he would finA great progress made toyzftrdc Cettieu.c-J: when he returned. v * *'i" : id#*
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 148, 11 May 1901, Page 1
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