The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 174, 11 July 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

LoVdon, July 7. Mr Rose Innas, Attorney-General fdt the Transvaal (Colony, addressing a meat * ing at Westminster ttndet the anspices ol the Imperial Sduth African declared that the annexation of the late Republics would alone secure permanent peace. Thhir independence meant a ret vival of conspiracy. Lord Kitchener reports that Boer raiders burned Boodepoft railway station on Friday. They were driven off with loss, two being killed add seven taken prisoners, all of whom were wounded The British had one wounded.

l^ul'dier l details of the attack on the blockhouses at Bruisp'-uik on June 2bth show that of Ben Vrljoen’s com* mando attempted to cross the Delagoa Bay railway northwards One of blockhouses fell into the hands of the enemy, but the others held out. An explosion partly derail d an armoured train which was coinin g to the assistance of the British. The Boers, thinking that the train was wrecked, atfcempte I to rush it. They ware encountered at a di tance of ten yards with a teriflsc caseshot fire, and thereupon withdrew. Two thousand refugees wore brought to Eilenburg in a fortnight. iuly 8. Reuter’s agency reports that a oquadron of Remington’s guides routed volcerman’a commando at Brakfonteio, Ackerman was wounded in the shoulder.

Remington next attacked Pretorious’S c>mm«i)Ho 206 strong-, at Kootzepoort After twenty minutes’ fight at doss quarters amo^ga 1 . the rocks and bashes during which several of the Boers were wounded, Pretorious himself being shol in the eye, the enemy fled.

Five Britl *h columns in several creeks of clearing the banks of Orange River captured 127 Boers, including several leaders, ninety-two rifles, 19,600 sheep, 7,000 cattl i and 5,000 horses. They also collected 1,200 refugees. The Standard states that Commandant Viljoen, with 400 men, has broken aerobe the Delagoa Bay northward, and is noW at Bothasberg-. Botha bis returned towards Ermelo.

The Duly Mail publishes a latter signed Edgar Wallace, embodyiwg t' 6 sensational narrative of an eye-witne > ippererttly an officer, of the bittle of Vlakfontein. This eye-w tness alleges that he saw two of Comm >.n ianb K *mp s Boers deliberately •hooting at the wounded, four of whom wre killed, including a sergeant, who was s igh ly wounded, and an officer to whom the sergeano was offering water.

An additional ten of the Gordon Highlanders were wounded by the Wrecking of the train at Naboomsprnit. Three of the Mirquis of Tu Lb'r liue’a Scottish Horse were killed and nine wounded at ElancUhock on July 3. Auuny, July 8

Th i troopship Orient hn arrived fr >m Cape Town with large detachments d! returning Australians. Remington’s scouts took a position oi tba sth, capturing Barkhuisennn, ai oath-breaking and train-wrecking commandant. The fight wis a sharp one at clo- 0 quarters, an 1 the bayonet Wis used One Boer was killed and two wouuded. A d jzoo cablegrams . have been exchanged between Kroger and Bo hi, the latt r urging the aceeotmee of L >rd Kitchener’s terms. Kruger and Leyd’a influence, however, prevailed. Tin W-r Offii j promptly honoers any New S Kith Wiles d <man Is oo amount of the Imperial Bushmm, the AgentGeneral hiving roc ;ived £30,003 within & month. The lodependance Beige declares tbit Kruger’s attitude is oriminil. Great Britain declines to release the Americana taken prisoners during the war in the Transvaal. July 9.

The Daily News declare? {hat the tightens alone, and not the intriguers on <be Continent, who are out of the reach of British guns, are entitled to be heard. It adds that the British Government a* - © unwise in allowing Botha to communicate with Kruger. Scheeper’s comuaamfo entered Mirraysbure, which was not garrisoned, and burned the public buildings an! a number of houses. Two rebels, who were cmvicted of the murder of an English soldier at Aliwil No?th, will be treated as ordinary murderers and executed. Kruger’s obs imcy with regard to t d war is embarrassing the pro-Boers, The Daily Mail advisee that In d S anley, Financial Secretary to the War Office, should secure the evidence of Lieutenant Hears, of the Imperial I ©• manry, with rCgat 1 to the alleged Shooting of wounded men at Bokfontei , which was tendered to Lord Kitchener after the official contradiction of the shooting of British gunnels. The Hot published letters from m*mbers of the Yeomanry confirming tho statement about the shootingof British wounded. In the House of Commons Lord Stan ■ ley, replying to Lieutenant-Oolone! Lee, the member for Farehim, promised to enquire into the D ily Mail’s statements with reference to the shooting of the wounded at Blokfmteiu. If the statements were found false the correspondent would be most sev rely de.lt with. Washington, July 9.

Mr Hay ia satisfied that the reports of British ill-treatmeat of prisoners at* unfounded.

New York, July 9. The Herald's Washington correspondent states that Mr H y. Secruary fur State, agrees with Lord Milner that nobody serving with the Boers as a belligerent loses his nati inality. The Orient was not allowed to ber h owing to a case of scarlet fever, and several cases of measles on board. The The troops {consist of over a thousand Australian Bushmen, who are bringing home two captured Boer guns.