The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 175, 13 July 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

Loiinoy, July 9. The Daily hews reports a smart engage nerit, A British railway guard stationed southwards of Kroonstad left their blockhouse to intercept a Boer conIvoy crossing the railway, Oth* Boers occupied the blockhouse, and the British beeween two fires took cover and defended their position until the arrival of a train which emptied the blockhouse. Six Boers were killed and thirty wounded aid the remainder and the convoy werfe captured. r Fouche’s commando baa returned to r the Barkley E*st di'trict.

Lord Kitchener reports that since July Ist, forty Boera have been killed, tweoityseven wounded, 182 mp ured, twenty onb have surrendered, and 312 waggons, j7OOO cartridges and many horses an I c itl'e hvve been captured.

A Blue Bo >k his hsen issued deahVg with a number of captured documents. One shows that B 'tha in an address on March loth told the burghers that he had informed Lord K’tohener that they were fighting for what they never would surrender, their independence. Ho altfb complains about the incomplete restoration of Boer independence in 1881. In OclCher, Botha, in order ‘to preventsurrenders, threatened to confiscate thn property of surrenderors, and to burn their houses. In November it wss pr ipaga fcl that France was ready to land troops in South Africa, and also that the Canadian end Australian troops were withdrawing" 1 May 10oh Lord K tchener, replying to Botha's request to facilitate the d -sp tch of envoys to Kruger, declared lhal he recognised only the Boer officers •n l he. field.

July 10 D .floy, a Boer who escaped from Betmuda o.i landing from a steamer at New York, wks detained on the ground of being a pauper. bcba'kburgber and Steyn have issued a fresh proclamation p-onusing the ■eventual iut rvention of the Powe-s. Commandant Scheeper extorted money from the Standard Bank at Murrayburg. Duplcssis, a-minister of the Dutch Reformed Church at has implored the Moderator of the Synod of the Transvaal and Orange Fiver Chnrehes 6 s*nd mediators to Lord Kitchener and rhi Boer Lade 's. During the sitting of the Treason ’carts in Cape Colony, fines to the amount of £20,000 have been impose oft ; rebels, and in Natal an additional sum of ; £IB,OOO.

Lord Kitchener’s latest despatches show that between March and May 6th, he Britishers captured twenty five gun*, including two Long Toms, one Creuz t, one 4.7 inch , while 7084 Boer belligerents were killed, wounded or capture 1. General Sir Bidden Blood’s thrift lolumns march d from Middleberg to springs. The Boers slipped between oberti. The enemy is being gradually re lueed to an irreconcilable nucleus, which is likely to proVe more troublesome than thousands ready to fight. Mr Bennet Burleigh reports that the Eastern Transvaal is so bare that tho Boers must surrender Or go ‘elsewhereThe women are tii ed of the war, and are urging the : r husbands to surrender.

Messrs Me riiiian and Saner, Afrfbander B n.l delegates, who were sent to Eng- ’.ml, have returned to Capetown. So demonstration was made, and their landing was allowed to pass unnoticed. The Daily Express’s D. lajoa Bay correspondent reports that rig t between Machadodorp and Lodiuberg, the Boers were defeated heavily, losing fifty killed and many wounded'. July 11. Major Bose, with seventy of the Western Australian Fourth Contingent and Queensland, Victoria, Tasmahian, South Australian and New Zealand troops, lias sailed from East London to Australia.

Scheeper has issued a proclamation annexing Munaysburg to the Orange Free State. He has gained many fresh ad- e ents. Mr Asquith, at a banquet to the Hon W. Broderick, speik ng of the Nationilist urS m with the Conse vatives* said i.hat at all hazu-ds and all risks the Cranavaal campaign must be carried through. The Government would net flinch at making any demand upon the country. 'Vienna, July 9, Kapuscha, a pro-Boer agi a'or at Vienna, has been sentenced to five yeW imprisonment for embezzling funds subscribed by sympathisers of the Boers.