REPORTED SURRENDER of BOTHA
HERTZOG AND DE WET JUNCTION.
LATTER CONTEMPLATES ADVISABILITY OF SURRENDER.
NEW ZEALANDERS BESIEGED IN ZEERUST
A GALLANT SORTIE
' [N.Z. Press Association-. —Copteight.]
(Received 9.25 a.m.)
LONDON, February 28
An announcement, declared to. be official, was made that Commandant Louis Botha had surrendered to Lord Kitchener, the Commander-in-Chief, in the Middleburg district.
Later it was reported that the mes^ sage was an unofficial one.
An earlier message was to the effect that Botha's force was moving towards Yiljoen's headquarters, afc Eoosenkal, seventy miles north-west of Middlebnrg, and thirty west of Lyden-
burg.
LONDON, February 27.
Three himdred surrendered to General French alter the fighting.
Lord Kitchener has reached Middleburg. He reports that up to the 25th inst. General French's additional captures include one 19-pounder Krupp, one Howitzer, one Maxim, 20.000
rounds of. small arms ammunition. 6000 cattle, 10,000 sheep. 257 waggons. There were no British casualties.
The Boers in Pretoria are filled with consternation at General French's sue-
cesses.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 1 March 1901, Page 5
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