TRANSVAAL ANNEXED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 210, 4 September 1900, Page 5

TRANSVAAL ANNEXED.

FORMAL PROCLAMATION BY ROBERTS.

lOEE FLAGRANT TREACHERY

REPORTED.

ADVANCE EAST PROGRESSING.

BOTHA DEJECTED.

BiDEN-POWELL STILL AFTER DE WET.

[N.Z. Press Association.— Copyright.]

(Eeceived 8.50 a.m.)

LOjSTDON", September 3. jj, Lord Boberts has formally an'jifi&cl the Transvaal, i When the Boers recently blew up the railway near Krugersdorp, Lord Boberts ordered a sudden descent on Bobdepoort, a village close to the "place where the line was broken. ;; All who xf ailed to give a satisfactory account of themselves were ar- ; tested. The "Standard's" correspondent ; states that ■during the fighting at Belfast, nlar Maehadodorp, the Boers deliberately shot Surgeon i.OWeilL who was collecting the funded in the field, and then seized the. ambulance. | LONDON, September 2. H General Buller has reached Badjfontein. §'-The rains are impeding his advance. I Fifteen hundred Boers are hastening to Komati Poort, on the Portuguese' East Africa frontier, to opJose a force expected from Swazivjand. Kite Boars admit 70 killed and 100 founded at the Bergendal fight. raEhe burghers have reminded lomman^ant-in-Chief Louis Botha of his promise, that the last stand '■ijrould be made at Machadodorp. He he would not fight again. He if as running away out of shame.