The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 105, 21 September 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London, September I ft. The Daily Mail’s Capetown eorrespOH* dent states that Lord Kitchener and Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson favour martial law in Capetown, in view of the extirpation of rebels, while Sir J. Gordon Spigg, the Premier, and the community oppose it: September 18. Lord Kitchener’s weekly report states that forty-seven Boe s had been killed, seven wounded, 371 had been taken prisoners, and 134 had surrendered j 236 rifles, 23,750 rounds of ammunition, 164 wagg >ns, 3400 horses, and 5750 cattle had been captured. Brigadier-Geno > -al Plumor and MajorGeneral Sir Charles Knox are pushing the enemy in the Orange Colony. September 18; Brigadier-General ■ Kekewich captured thirty six prisoners, including Field* Cornet Kluppjr, in Maglieaberg. Major-General Gilbert Hamilton, after a ride of eighty miles, captured twenty* five Boers west of Sohroon spruit, with 140 reinonn's. Lord Kitchener warmly supports tha appeal for Chriitmas for the troop< in South Africa. A party of M fine’s scouts, following fifty Boers to Platrand were surrounded by 300 but they charged through, losing two men killed and four wounded, and killing and wounding eight Boers. Kruger’s youngest son, Igaard, has surrendered 4u, order to secure safety for the farms his father ceded to him. September 19. A patrol of Grenadier Guards were surrounded at a f irm at Riet siding, on *w D« Aar-Kwauwpoort line, and cap* toad after a stubborn resistance. One officer and one man ware killed, and two men wounded; A sergeant woe drowned w bile swimming river to gst. sup*, port* - »