BRITISH SUCCESS.
Free Staters Increasingly Indignant with Steyn
GIVING IN IN THOUSANDS.
RELINQUISH A HOPELESS CAUSE.
Transvaalers stiil hope for Continental Intervention.
MAFEKING GALLANTLY HOLDS OUT.
14,000 BOERS IN THE BIGGARSB.ERG.
[N.Z. Press Assoc:
(Received 9.10.)
LONDON, March 19
The Free Staters are waxing increasingly indignant with President Steyn for concealing the Boer casualties. Three-fourths of them have returned to their homes. Lord Roberts has entrusted the Bloemfontein army hospital, containing 500 beds, to the care of SurgeonMajor Fiaschi's section of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps. There are many complaints of bad boots (a very serious matter in long marches) made by the men under Lord Roberts. The women and children and the British officers at Pretoria have been transferred to quarters underDaspoortridge, on the outskirts of the pity. LONDON, March IS. The British cavalry hold Thabanchu, midway between Bloemfontein and Lady Brand. Thousands of rebels in the Orange districts have surrendered. The Transvaalers cling to the delusion that Europe will intervene. Two thousand five hundred rifles were surrendered on Friday. Lord Roberts' action in releasing those who surrender on parole Induced others to submit. Eight hundred Free Staters at Edinburgh have surrendered. General Gatacre captured 24 waggons, two engines, and a quantity of ammunition at Spring-fontein. Seme of his prisoners are Transvaalers. Boer deserters brought a Maxim and a nine pounder to Belmont. Another nine pounder was brought to Colesberg.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1900, Page 5
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