A WARNING AS TO GUERILLA WAR FARE.
I Lord Roberts has issued a proclamation, in which he states that Messrs Kruger and Reitz, with the archives, have reached Delagoa, intending to sail for Europe. Mr Kruger has resigned the presidency, severing his official connection with the Transvaal. His desertion of the Boer cause" is a proof of the hopelessness of the struggle. Fifteen thousand Boers are now held prisoners, not one of whom will be released until all in the field surrender unconditionally. Lord Roberts announces that intervention must be regarded as impossible, and that the Empire is determined to complete the task that has been undertaken. Any lingering doubt on this point that the Boers may hold must be dispelled by the permanent manner in whioh the Republics have been occupied and annexed. He intends vigorously to suppress guerilla warfare by every means which the customs of war prescribe, and points out that the measures he may be required to take will prove ruinous to the country, entailing endless suffering.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10763, 17 September 1900, Page 5
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