The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 191, 20 August 1901, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, August 15. Lord Kitchener has seat bis proclamation, with a letter, to Steyn and Botha. The Morning Post’s Pretoria correspondent states that the Boers are showing a general tendency to be captured. August 16. A committee in Switzerland arranged to send a doctor and six nurses to attend to the womenfolk in the refugee camps. The party will not bo a lowed to leave Southampton, the authorisation given by Lord Huberts in March having been rescinded by the War Office on the ground that all measures necessary to preserve heal h "Wei 0 now being taken:

The that it should review the War Office’s decision.

Colonel Coring i«fl cted losses on Kruitzingelr, Erasmus, Pyper, and Cachet near Stayn burg. Erasmus and Cachet were mortally wourtded.

Mr B Hour, in the House of Commons, said that not a man or a horse Would be withdrawn unless the military situation justified the st«*p. The war had been unduly prolonged, even from the standpoint of the Boers. The second reading of the Appropria • tion Bill gam rise to ah animated debate iu the H use of Oomn.oni. * Sir W. Harcourt* referring to Lord Kitchener’s Pro r clamation, said it was Calculated to irritate, while being futile and unwarranted by the existing military situation It deprived the fibers pf belligerent rights.

Colonel Crabbe la h>tly pursuing K>uitzinger’s Commando, which Colonel Coring ptlt to flight. Commandant Erasmus was Captured un wounded.

„ Major Toll and a party of Queenslanders surprised and captured a small Boer laager on the 6th. Eeu'er's oorrespbndfint states that a party of South Australian Bushmen belonging to Do Inale's column ruihod a farmhouse on horseback. They fixed bayohets, expecting that the house contained only a few BoCra. Fifty emerged* and a smart fight ensued, five Boers being killed, nine wounded, and seven Captured. Bight of the wounded escaped-. The British casualties are not sUtcdk August 17. The Dully Hail gives the following details oit the Koppieafontein fight t—2oo Boers on the night of the 6th iPst, trapped a patrol of eight Queenslanders, kilhttg two t then attacked the outposts and got within 30 yards of the camp. When thef Were repulsed by the supports. " ■ ; Bbipe of the BCbr leaders haVe refused to receive the Proclamation, but the surrenderers deC’are that it will be Ultimately successful. Ooroniiandapt Tberonv with a superior force, surrounded-fiO of GePeral French’s Boouie neoc Bethesda. After two . hoars' fighting the AooaU surrendered, One tooat was kilted, and four Wouhded. BubseqUenUyihs wouti wCru mewed.