THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12570, 3 August 1901, Page 7

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

WIVES OF SURRENDEREES., BOERS IN PORTUGUESE TERRITORY. THE BOER MAIN EOR.CE. SUPPORT FROM GAPE COLONY. MURDERS BY NATIVES. COST OF THE WAR. ' United Press Associatioiv—By Siecirta Telegraph—Copyright. ■ LONDON, August 1. A commandant near Krugersdprp offered to send into the British camps the female relatives of the recent surrenderee. The offer njas accepted. • - Owing to a lack of provisions, a commando with two guns has entered the Portu- ■' guese territory at Guanetz. A force of 800 Portuguese troops is demanding their surrender. , ■ ' The- main force of the Boers is within a quadrilateral area bounded by lines drawn from Brandfort West to De Aar, thence to Stormberg, and by Queenstown, to Brand- s fort West. They are split up into numerous bodies of from ten to one hundred and fifry. Another group is in the Herschel-Aliwal North district, while a smaller collection is situated in the west. The farmers every? where are supporting the enemy. ARRESTS FOR TREASON AND MURDER. , LONDON, August 1. Duplessis, a. Boer, has been arrested on a charge of murdering Lieutenant Neumeyer in the Rouxville district in 1900. Vanrhyn, who is a of the Cap Legislature, together -with several farmer, at Vnxrhynsdorp, has been, arrested on * .charge of treason during the invasion of the Cape territory last January. They have been admitted to bail. CAPTURE OF A PATROL. COLD-BLOODED MURDERS OF NATIVES. (Received August 2, 11 p.m.),, .r LONDON, August 2. Lord Kitchener reports that two hundred Boers surrounded and captured, and afterwards released, a patrol consisting of twenty Yeomanry, at Doom River, Orange Colony. After the patrol had surrendered, the Boer's shot all the native scouts accompanying the patrol, and also killed a wounded yeoman, in mistake for a Capa boy. .- ■ General French reports that'Eruitzinger_ has ■written announcing his intention to shoot all natives in British employ, armed ‘ or unarmed. Many cases of cold-blooded murder of natives ere occurring in Cape Colony. . “THE GOST OF THE WAR. THE LOAN BILL.'' LONDON, August 2. The Sixty Million Loan Bill has * passed i\j through Committee. Lord Stanley stated that between'April 1 and. the end of July, the war had cost twenty-five and threequarter millions. The expenditure in July was a million and a quarter per week. (Received August 2, 11.10 p.m.) • Speaking, on the Loan Bill, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach said that the sums . voted for the war would suffice till the middle of February, longer if things Went well. It 1— was unlikely that it would be necessary to borrow again this financial year. Already the war expenditure had been consideraVy reduced,' while there was reason to anticipate a largo reduction soon. This remark is interpreted in'the lobbies to mean an early recall of forty thousand troops. ' ■ , CAPTURES OF STOCK AND GRAIN. (Received August 3, 1 a.m.) ■ LONDON, August 2. Colonel Featherstonhaugh scoured the.fertile country between, Rustenbexg and Zeerust, and found hundreds of fanners quietly , pursuing agriculture. He made large lures of s tock and immense quantities pf concealed grain and mealies were removed or destroyed. A welcome home “ social ” was tendered to Corporal Peter A. Chaplin, of, Templeton, who has recently returned from South Africa, in the Templeton School, last evening, when the building was crowded tp' its utmost capacity. Mr G. Witty presidedAddresses of Welcome were delivered; by Messrs G, Witty, D. Sinclair, G. Benjamin, G. Kissell, arid B. Burns. Mr Witty, on ■ behalf of Corporal Chaplin’s friends in the Templeton and surrounding district, presented him with a handsome gold Maltese cross, suitably inscribed. Corporal Chap-, lin responded, after which refreshments were handed round. During the evening a concert programme was submitted, in which the choir of St Saviour’s and several local singers took part. Dancing Was then commenced. ' \