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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7092, 28 August 1901, Page 2

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-ZITOHEis TER'S PEOCLAMATION. EETTEES.FEOM STEYJVT AND DE ,/,: ;--^■..■?-;WET;.. ;'-_■. : WILL; CONTINUE FIGHTING. : ' KRUGEE-INTEEITEWED. >: ("AN ABOMINABLE LIE—I PEO- , V CLAIM IT -BEFOBE THE ■y;ALMIGHTY." ..;;;■•;•-:".' ;-. :-^ Eeceived August 28,' at 9.1 a.m.: ''~\ : -~ : V. London, August 27. ': ■■; In reply to his proclamation,: Lord Kitchener received a long letter from ex. President Steyn, setting put arguments in the. Boer cause. The ex-President «ays.he will continue to fight. Lord Kitchener also got a short letter from General iDe Wet \to the same effeot..' Vv;-. ':■--'-•■: ". : V, .• General" Botha,: in-a letter to Lord Kitchener, protests; against ';the procla" mation. HS says he intends to continue fighting. .; •/■■ '•. .:...;---.; ..;.•; ~ .■ Lord Kitchener,, in commentuig on tae letters, say?/ nevertheless the number of surrenders have increased considerably; . ...'■ -'/:.'■ " r .-'•' ';.. '•-■■;';■''.•".'-..-..- . Ex-President Kruger, in an interview with tho Daily Telegraph correspondent, said the issue, of Lord Kitchenerls clamation was the blackest crime and without pretest. : The "Boers "are;'still regularly" governed anj. systematically led. The .proclamation .would; intensify the resistance. The story of'the conspiracy of the Eepublics against Great Britain was an. abominable lie, and "I proclaim it before the Almighty,", declared the ex-President! witnesses are Lord Salisbury" and Mr Chamberlain. They know it was we who did our utmost to ayert...bloodshed, and added, "We are now ready to conclude peace' on a give "and take basis—independence of the. Eepublics and -free pardon to Colonial Africanders, we making reason- | able sacrifices: by. giving, satisfactory guarantees"."; ■'. -7 ■-.-_• '■'":. .-.•-.". • -! ;