The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 163, 15 June 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

London, June 11

Each Boer prisoner taken after th 6 Jamestown affair had three rifles, plainly showing that Kruitzinger was intent Upon recruiting. Messrs Kruger, Leyds, C. D Fiscl fet and A. D. Wblmarans are at The H guO 'where they will meet Mrs Botha, to receive her husband’s peace suggestions.

Lord Kitchener allows the Netherlands Consul at Pretoria, Mr Smuts, and Da Wet’s and Botha’s private secretary, to freely cable to Mr Kruger. •, TheDdly Mail states that Christian De Wet ond 1000 men are reported ’t Gats and. Botha is strongly entrenched at Blaauwban I'-, 1 '-, where De Le Bey is trying to j «in them General Bundle’s column devas at d Ficksburg, Bethlehem district, destroying the mills, and agricultural implements. hifty-eight Boers wore ki'hd and wound j d during th* Web’s march* 7- a OO tons of grain and forage, 228 w«gsheep were oaptcred, and 280 women tini children were brought in. Eleven British were killed and. forty •.

Pnnsloo’s and Bam nback's convtnahdos continua’ly opposed General R.undle.

Th > Cape Town cor e pendent of the Times states that Lord Kitchener purpoaely allowed Kruitzinger to occupy Jamestown as a bait. Although thO plan fai’ed the British had compensatory successes. June 1?. Lord Ki chener reports that Van Reusburg aid bis comm ndo sur-en ereil at Petersburg. One hundred Boert ■ought in their arms, the others follow-

agency explains that the story of the alleged shooting ot a lieirenant and sergeant mij >i at VUkfontein wis based on the statement that they were wounded.

The Duly Mail states that two surrenders were court-martialled and shot at Pretoria for attempting to rejoiu their commandoes after taking the oath of neutrality.

Juno 13. Colonel Oolenbrander, at Nylstroomy killed five and captured 100 Brers. Lieutenant-Colonel Haig, driving Emilzinger towards the Orange River, capture! fifty of the en^my. Details of the court-martial, which ordered the shooting of surrenderee at Pretoria, show that six armed Boersy sworn to neh'rality, attempted to escape. They fired, wounding a sentry, -when ch dlen red, and then escapsd. Three were recaptured. The death sentence was remitted in the case of one you h, and the others were shot.

A thousand Boer prisoners in Bellevue c<rap have petitioned Steyn, Schalkburger, Botha and Da Wet to cease the struggle, on the ground of plunging the petitioners, their families and the country into deeper distress. The presentation of thetfar medals wia a lengthy ceremony, the Sovereign standing for two hours. The King was dressed in a Field iJarshal’a unifo-m, with the blue ribbon of the garter, and he handed all the medals to the recipients at the rate of twenty-eight per minute.