EXECUTION OF SCHEEPERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7367, 21 January 1902, Page 2

EXECUTION OF SCHEEPERS.

THE QUESTION OF PEACE

TERMS.

BOTHA. APPEALED TO.

Received January 20, 10.48 p.m.

London, January 20. Scheepers was executed at Graafreinet on Saturday. Kruitzinger will be tried immediately.

Major Whitehead, with a company of Munster Fusiliers, stormed a position at Griquatown at the point of the bayonet. Major Whitehead and four men were killed and five seriously wounded. The Boers lost severely. Colonel Munro's column killed four and captured six rebels at Karmelspruit.

Boers in the Barkley East district admit that 150 have been killed, captured, or have deserted during the last two months.

Twenty-three additional Boer leaders have been permanently banished. Dr. Van Kuyper, Netherlands' Premier, saw Wolmarans and the Boer peace delegates ac The Hague directly he returned from London. Wolmarans communicated with Mr Kruger, and summoned Fischer and Dr. Leyds to a conference.

It is reported that several officials of the Colonial and Foreign Offices are visiting The Hague under assumed names.

The Boer delegates, especially Kruger and Leyds, are most reluctant to suggest a basis for negotiations, since Lord Salisbury's declaration in the House of Lords on Thursday, fearing a rebuff. Router's Agency reports that Wolmarans, in the course of an interview, stated that the blockhouses would finish the war quicker than anything else.