THE WAR
IN SOUTH AFRICA.
A THREAT BY KSUITZrNGER.
Pro-boers in -London;
LORD MILNER DENOUNCED.
A NEW'ZEALANDER KD-iED.
United Press Association—By Electrio
Telegraph—Copyright.
(Received June 20th, 9.20 a.m.)
LONDON, June 19.
Kruitzinger, who is at Klemfontein, threatens to commandeer aH persons giving information to the British. He states that he does this in virtue of the proclamation annexing the" northern portion of Cape Colony to tbe late Orange Free State at the beginngig of the war.
The troopship Bavaria has sailed for South Africa, with 850 men of the Manchester Regiment, and the South Staffordshire Militia (sax hundred).
The War Office has resumed purchasing horses in America, and eight transports are loading at New Orleans.
Colonel Scott's railway guards at Haartebeestepan, in the Western Transvaal, captured many stock, two waggons, rifles, and ammunition.
COMMISSION FOR A NEW ZEALANDER.
Sergeant-Major Eyre, of the Fifth New Zealand Contingent, has been granted a conu_-is-»ion in the Yeomanry.
MR RHODES GOING TO ENGLAND. CAPETOWN, June 19. Mr Cecil Rhodes soils for England on July 3rd. BOER COMMANDANT SENTENCED" TO DEATH. (Received June 21st, 12.45 a.m.)
LONDON, June 20.
Tha Boers sentenced Commandant Piet Fourie to -death for attempting to surrender. De Web commuted the sentence to imprisonment.
THE WAR
Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10997, 21 June 1901, Page 6
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