The Boer War.
DERAILING TRAINS. KITCHENER HAS A NARROW ESCAPE. INHUMANITY TO BLACKS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Feh. 21. A goods train derailed near Johannesburg contained Lord Kitchener’s baggage, which was preceding Kitchener. The armored trucks attached to Lord Kitchener’s train hastened forward with the bodyguard, who expelled the Boers from the vicinity of the line. The invaders have derailed a train on the Naauwpoort-Do Aar railway, near Taiboschfontein.
They compelled the blacks riding on the trucks to stand over a hole from which ballast had been taken. Then the Boers fired, killing two, and wounding others.
THE CAUSE HOPELESS,
KRUGER SAID TO BE RETURNING TO ARRANGE PEACE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
London, Feb. 21
Schnlkburgcr told the burghers that the cause is hopeless and hostilities futile. He advised them to surrender, not in twos and threes, but as a nation. Kruger has announced that he will be returning to the Transvaal after tho war.
The Morning Post’s Pretoria corrcs pondent states that a Boor report is in eir culation that Kruger is returning to ar range the termination of the war.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 45, 22 February 1901, Page 2
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