A DESPERATE RESISTANCE.
LONDON. June 3
The outlying columns report that the Boers are fighting with :.desperate fierceness.
Prisoners report that there is a general feeling that resistance is hopeless.
Considerable numbers of Boers are fleeing north before General Blood, ahd others trekking to Nazaland.
The Boers at Brussels assert Queen Wilhelmina at Berlin tried to arrange for the intervention of the Powers, but Count Yon Bulow gave an evasive reply.
A large meeting of burghers and Britishers at Zeerust protested against the attitude of the Bond leaders and the Dutch Church towards the peace delegates.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 131, 4 June 1901, Page 5
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