CABLE NEWS. THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9833, 4 August 1900, Page 3

CABLE NEWS. THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

DE WET AND STEYN. Hemming Them In, Indiscreet British Politicians.

United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (Received Aug. 4, 1.30 a.m.)

London, Ang. 2

Major-Generals Broad wood and Ridley are tightening the cordon round De Wet and Steyn, in the hills west of Vredeforr. Documents discovered at the Government offices in Pretoria indicate that some members of the British House of Commons and other politicians had indiscreetly expressed sympathy with the Boers. General Botha asks for confirmation of news of Prinsloo's surrender. He desires to communicate with De Wet. The Hon. J. Rose-Innes, in moving the second reading of the Treason Bill in the Cape Parliament, declared that the amnestying of 9000 rebels was impossible, since Great Britain would not consent to such a thing. [per press association.] Wellington, Last night. The inquiry from the Imperial Government for 4000 tons of hay is for delivery c.i.f. at Durban by the 30th September. The time civen is so limited that the Agricultural Department has repl'ed it will be impossible to supply any from this colony. Tho Department state that with morn time and shipping accommodation, part if not the whole of the order could be filled.