THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Lake County Press, Issue 975, 15 August 1901, Page 5

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

A patrol captured a Doer belonging to Thereon's commando. The prisoner had two horses with him and a quantity of detonators and various contrivances for exploding trains. Scheep'ei's commando shot an interpreter in cold blood at Steytlerville. Mr Bennet Burleigh states that the enemy aro receiving supplies through Basutohmd. The managers for the subscriptions raised for the B-ier Tomen and children admit that they are well provided for, and that the £20,000 they have in hand will be better spent af<er the war. A proclamation by Lord Kitchener dated 7th August, published on the 10 th, notifies that all leaders must surrender before September 15th, or they will be banished for life from South Africa. The maintenance of the families of burghers who have not surrendered by that date will be recoverable from the property of burghers in the field. General Kitchener's proclamation emphasises the accomplishment of annexation and possession of the Seats of government, public offices, and all the railways; announces that 35,000 Boers are either prisoners or have surrendered, and are living peacefully in towns or camps under British control, and that the few remaining in arms have lost almost all their guns and ammunition, are disorganised, and engaged in isolated attacks and acts of plunder and destruction. They are aimlessly prolonging bloodshed, ruining the peacefully disposed, and Britain is determined to suppress all such lawlessness. Three policemen at Pretoria, while trying to arrest a notorious Boer spy, were fired upon by the latter, who shot one and effected his escape. Lord Kitchener reports that a blockhouse near Brandfort was rushed and captured on the night of the 7fch. Severe fighting occurred, and one British was killed and three wounded. General Elliot is sending down the line 70 prisoners and a large quantity of stock and waggons captured in the district he is scouring. Lord Kitchener's despatches explain that it was the intention of Commandant ITertzog, during his invasion of Cape Colony in December last, to meet a ship at Lambert's Bay, with a supply of guns, mercenaries, and ammunition. At the same time De Wet was proceeding by way of De Aar, and was to co operate with Hertzog in attacking Capetown, Louis Botha simultaneously entering Natal with a picked force of five thousand men. A patrol of the Black "Watch surrounded a farm house at Korannasberg, capturing 13 Boers. Their leader refused to surrendt r and was killed. Several night successes have been carried out recently. General Colville on the Gth surprised Pretorius's laager, northward of Waterval, and captured 20 ; Colonel Kitchener captured thirteen at Tdiddleburg; Colonel Benson 25 m the Lydenburg district, including Botha's despatch riders; Steinacker's Horse, near the Portugese frontier, captured 13, all Germans and Hollanders. Kruiteinger, with 400 men, has crossed the line southward of Conway going towards Graaf Reinei. Other hands of Boers have broken through the cordon, and are reported to have reached Worcester, CaJvinia and Willowmore.