SOUTH AFRICA.

Evening Star, Issue 11606, 17 June 1902, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE SURRENDERS CONTINUE. THE KING CHEERED. ’ •DE WETS GREAT RECEPTION. EXHORTS THE BOERS TO SERVE LOYALLY. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. TONDON, June 16. Commandants Badenhorst, Duplessis, Bester, Iheron, and Jacob, with 890 men belonging to Bloemfontein, Boshof, and Brandlort, surrendered to General Eliott at Biandfort. They were weJ off for food and clothing, and the majority were provided with rifles. The officers were allowed to retain their arms. Good feeling was manifested, and the King was heartily cheered. Food was latterly scarce in many parts of the Orange Fiver Colony, and the drives stopped supplies. The Boers lived principally on meat and mealies. They had i o bread, salt, or sugar, but plenty of honey, coffee, and Kaffir com. Up to Saturday 16,600 Boers had surrendered, including De la Bey’s-800 at Lic'ntenbnrg, 590 others in Western Transvaal, 582 at Wakkerstroom, 570 at Utrecht, 242 at Nylstroom, 399 on the Delagoa railway, three Cape rebels, 25 burgher officers', 80? rebels, and 57 burghers, comprising the followers of Fouche, Malan, Smith, the two Pypers, Odendaal, Conroy, and BezindenLont. A WARNING NOTE. LONDON, June 15. ‘ The Times’s ’ Pretoria correspondent says that the burghers acquiesce in loyalty' to the new conditions, but that it would be unwise to be too sanguine. Their friendliness is partly due to the revulsion after their extreme sufferings. The war would soon have been ended without negotiations. The Boers had reached the last stages of exhaustion. Many commandos, indescribably ragged, scrambling for the sugar distributed by the authorities and eating it like bread, is suggestive of recent privations. THE CAPE ELECTORS. LONDON, June 15. Half the electorates of Cape Town have petitioned for the suspension of the Constitution. Signatures are arriving from all parts of the colony. THE MAN OF THE HOUR. LONDON, June 15. De Web visits Europe in July. A GREAT WELCOME. DE WET’S PATRIOTIC COUNSEL.

LONDON, June 16. The inmates of the concentration camps erected an arch inscribed “Welcome to oux braves.” De Wet was surrounded by thousands of women and children struggling to shake hands with him. He thanked the women, saying that if they had been less staunch the burghers would have surrendered long ago. “We now, for the first time, are under the British Government. lam under it. Having fought till there was no more hope, it is the thoroughly lawful Government to-day. God has thus decided, summoning us, as a Christian people, to be faithful to our new Government. Let us submit to God’s overruling will. I exhort you to serve the new Government loyally, along with myself and my burghers.” CONTINENTAL NERVE. LONDON, June 16. Austrian and German syndicates and ex port associations are sending many commercial travellers to the Cape. BOERS SHOOT GAME. THE BEST LOT SO FAR. LONDON, June 16. (Received June 17, at 9.2 a.m. ) Prinsloo, Froneman, Cronje, Vermaas, and Rantenbach brought to Winburg 850 men belonging to Winburg, Senegal, Ladybrand, and Ficksburg commandos. The majority have rifles, but the bulk of the ammunition was spent in_ game-shooting since peace was proclaimed. They were the best dressed of all the commandos, and their horses were in splendid condition. NOT WANTED FOR WAR. LONDON, June 16. (Received June 17, at 9.23 a.m.) Two Australian transports, with 500 troops aboard, have arrived at Durban.