SECOND EDITION. LATE WAR NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXVX, Issue 6073, 23 May 1900, Page 2

SECOND EDITION. LATE WAR NEWS.

♦ ■ AMERICA AND THE BOER ENVOYS. MPARTIAL NEUTRALITY TO BE OBSERVED. ?hb Fbbss Association.— By Elbot&xo Telegraph— Copyright. Received May 28, 1.10 a.m. Washington. May 22. Colonel John Hay, Secretary for State, unofficially received and lieard the Boer delegates in an in* berview lasting an hour. He then consulted President McKinley, and issued a statement reviewing the previous effort to bring about peace, and reiterating the Presidential declarations to avoid entangling alii- ' ances. Clauses 3 and 5 of The Hague Convention rendered further action under the circumstances inadvisable, President McKinley feeling that the only course was to persist in a policy of impartial neutrality. Deviation therefrom would be contrary to all American traditions and national interests. Received May 28, 10.80 a.m. Sydney, May 28. Rain is falling in torrents, and will spoil the Mafeking fay celebrations. RELIEF OF MAFEKING. FURTHER PARTICULARS. 120 BOER PRISONERS. Received May 23, 9.80 a.m. London, May 28. Reutei'a correspondent with the Mafeking relief column reports that the Boer leader Bioff was oaptured by Colonel Bare and a Polioe Fort Headquarters Protectorate Regiment. After a desperate combat at short range, many of Eloffs men fled. Thereupon the leader, disgusted, fired upon them, and then sur- | rendered to Colonel Hare. Altogether 120 Boer prisoners were taken, including the French Count De Buemont and the German, Yon Weiss. Colonel Mahon's relief column took twenty loads of supplies forward. The official report states that Colonel Mahon entered Mafeking at four o'clock on the morning of Friday, the 18th. On the previous day he encountered 1,500 Boers in a strong position, nine miles from Mafeking. After a stubborn re* sistance, lasting over fivo hours, the Boers were driven from their defence. A detachment of Canadian artillery, by forced marches, arrived in time to valuably assist in the British triumph. BOERS REPORTED TO HAVB LEFT NATAL. Reports received from Maritzburg are to the effect that the Boers have left the colony, having abandoned Lang's Nek. The wrecked railway is delaying General Bullet's advance. The statement is contradicted that Kruger sent a peace proposal couched in very humble terms to Lord Salisbury. Received May 23, 10.15 a.m. London, May 22. The Daily Express in an article entitled " Lest We Forget," urges that a national monument should be erected to the dead officers and men. It suggests that a site in the Strand should be secured, and a great edifice erected, the walls of wm'ch should bear a simple record of the names of dead officers and soldiers from whatever part of the empire they come, and that the monument should be London's gift to the nation.