OPERATIONS IN THE FREE STATE
THIS FREE STATE'S NKW CAPITAL. BbHitENDER OF THE (Beoaived 22, 9.30 a.m.) London, May 21. Mr. Steyn's new capital it at Yrede among the mountains 80 milei west of Kioonstad.
General Brabant has reached Clooo* lan, the Boars' lata headquarters. A hundred Free Staters surrendered, Lord Kitchener is now with Lord Roberts.
The further British advance is being delayed at Kroonstad, where the main array now lies awaiting supplies. A.field-cornet with 86 Boers but* rendered at Bo«hof.
Commandant Oilivier is stationed with a few followers between Senekal and Lindley.
General Bundle's forces stretch right acrosa the Eastern Free State from Winburg to Ficksburg. General Bundle is at Mexico, twenty miles east of Winburg.
It is officially announced that fifty rifles and three thousand rounds of ammunition were handed to the Yeomanry between Boshof and Bloemfontein, while 250 rifles and half-a-million rounds of ammunition were handed to Lord Methuen at Hoopstad. CAPTURE OF TWO BOTHAS. Received 22, 5 p.m. Loudon, May 21. General Hutton captured twoßothas, Philip and William, but not Louis, the Uommander-in-Chief. He also cap* tured a Cape rebel named SwaneopoeL
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 98, 23 May 1900, Page 2
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