THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7275, 27 August 1901, Page 2

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

(Press Association.—Copyright.) London, August 26. _ During the Duke of Cornwall's visit to Capetown the Boer prisoners presented him with curios made from Kruger coins. Tbe Duke shook hands with the prisoners who were delighted.

It is officially reported that General De la Rey has issued a proclamation warning tbe Boers against Lord Kitchener's proclamation, and adding that t! vy will continue the struggle. Mr Kruger, in the course of an interview, said, " Tbo Boers will disappear if God wills, but man will never conquer them."

The Brussels correspondent of the Daily Mail says General Botha has decided to keep British prisoners as hostages in the event of Lord Kitchener's proclamation being enforced,

A detachment of the Tenth Hussars had a sharpfight with Scheeper's commando south of Uniondale. The British had four killed aud eleven wounded.

The Standard's correspondent at Pretoria says that Colonel Williams's column escaped scathless in connection with the recent capture of a convoy near Klerksdorp. The prisoners taken include Miss Steyn, a niece ot the ex-President, aDd General De la Key's mother.

Brussels, August 25. Belgian Socialists desired to have a universal Labour strike declared as a piotest against the war in South Africa. The British Socialist*, however, sent a discouraging answer to the proposal, and the movement collapsed.