General De Wet's Marvellous Escapes.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1457, 9 June 1902, Page 2

General De Wet's Marvellous Escapes.

British Losses During the War. Wholesale Surrender of Boers. London, June 8. General De Wet has informed the Daily Telegraph's correspondent that he was never hit throughout the war, or had his horse touched, though the bullets cut his clothes. His Adjutant was wounded twice and bad six horses killed under him. The total deaths of the British during the war until June were — 1072 officers, and 20,870 men. A semi-official Berlin newspaper deprecates Anglo-phobia, and eulogises the Kaiser's attitude. Commandants bom Majer, Han9 Botha, and 850 followers surrendered to Bruce Hamilton, who welcomed

;hem as British subject?, and allowed them to join their relations in the Heidelberg district. Most of them ■ were clothed in leather and sheep skins and looked tired out. Their . horses were fit. Lord Kitchener reports that 440 Boers surrendered at Middleburg. They brought in pompoms, and indicated the hiding places of howitzers and maxims. Two hundred and eighty-nine burghers surrendered at Standerton, and 245 at Cradock, 219 of whom were rebels. The Governor has received the following telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated London, June 4th : "Please thank Mrs Arini Donnelly and her tribe for congratulatory message on the conclusion of peace in South Africa."