HUNTER'S SUCCESSES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 184, 4 August 1900, Page 5

HUNTER'S SUCCESSES.

750 MORE SURRENDERS-

HAMILTON MARCHING TO THE RELIEF

OF RUSTENBURG.

BOER TREACHERY NEAR FREDERICKSTAD.

CORNERING STETN AND DE WET

SCHREINER'S DUAL ROLE OF IMPERIALIST AND APOLOGIST.

[N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.]

(Received 10.15 a.m.)

LONDON, August 3

Seven hundred and fifty additional Boers have surrendered to General Hunter south-east of Beth-

lehem,

Immense supplies of cattle, sheep, •and waggons, and sufficient horses to remount General Hunters scouts have been taken.

. General lan Hamilton's mounted division, which, passed through Pretoria early in the week, is advancing to Rustenberg, 60 miles west of the late capital, where General BadenPowell is hard pressed. Commandant Liebeberg, on. the 81st, sent a flag of truce demanding the surrender.' of General SmithDorrien's force near Frederickstad, on the Johannesburg-Klerksdorp line, or he would attack within half

an hour.

Before it was possible to reply

Liebeberg opened a heavy fire, but I trie attack was easily repulsed. The British losses were two killed and seven wounded.

LONDON, August 2

Generals Broadwood and Ridley are tightening the cordon, round Commandant De Wet "and Ex-Presi-dent Steyn in the hills' west of iVredefort, west of the railway and close to the Orange River Colony northern border.

Botha, the Boer Commandant- inChief, asks for confirmation of the Hews of Confmandant Prinsloo's surrender. He desires to communicate with De Wet.

Documents have been discovered at the Government offices, Pretoria, which contain indications that some members of the British Hoixse of Commons and other politicians had indiscreetly expressed sympathy with the Boers.