CABLE NEWS. THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9834, 6 August 1900, Page 3

CABLE NEWS. THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

THE SURRENDERS.

Over Three Thousand Boers Lay Down Their Arms.

Kruger's Promises.

Compensation to Burghers.

Enemy Ejected from the Magaliesberg Mountains.

Portugal's Attitude. -

United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph, — Copyright. (Received Aug. 6, 1 a.m.) London, Aug. 4. Three thousand three hundred and forty-eight Boers have now surrendered to Major-General.Hunter, with 304 C horses and three guns. Reuters correspondent states that Commandant Botha and Mr Kruger have issued a proclamation that they will compensate burghers remaining in the field if the British injure their farms. The Boers derailed and burned a train at Honingsprnit, about twentyfive miles north of Kroonstad, though it was flying the Stars and Stripes, as the American Consul-General was a passenger. The Boers, after derailing the train, captured forty British, whom they afterwards liberated. Lieut-GeneralFrench's right now rests on the Koomati river, where the railway is intact. It is officially reported that Colonel Hamilton ejected the enemy from the Magaliesberg mountains, between Pretoria and Rustenburg, taking a number of prisoners. One had a sporting rifle, using soft-nosed bullets. Fortyone British were wounded, chiefly belonging to the Berkshire regiment. Portugal has dismissed all the Customs and railway officials at Delagoa Bay, owing to contraband being allowed to pass into the Transvaal. Military officers have been appointed in their places. Mr Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, said a letter from political personages in England was found in Pretoria, and was dated on the eve of the war. It suggested that Mr Kruger should make temporory concessions and the reaction in Great Britain favor. . - j^^^^M Mr Schreiner, appeasement of the trouble, moved a new Treason Bill, enabling at the Cape at any next five years, with the Crown and the to grant an amnesty to tl^^^^^^H

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Wellington, Sat^^^^H The Agent-General cables ; —;^^^| General Hunter reports that 75(^^^^| Free Staters have surrendered, h^^^H about 2940 to the present time. Last nigfc^^f A cable from Lieutenant the Fifth Contingent, states that Fourth and Fifth Contingents have rived at Mafeking, having marched Rhodesia. They are to advance on PijH toria, where the whole New ZealaoJH contingents will be brigaded as a specie New Zealand Regiment, by order of Lorfl Roberts. ■