BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 71, 12 April 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

A BAD CASE OF TREACHERY. CAPTURE OF BOERS AT BOSMANDORP. BRITISH PATROL CAPTURED. OLAIMS BY DEPORTED FOREIGNERS. [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received 11, 9.7 a.m. London, April 10. After staying on a farm dot Heilbron with Mr. St9yr», Commandant De Wet and General Botha have returned to the Transvr.a!. Mr. Schalkburger "has removed his headquarters from Leydsdorp to an inaccessible part of the Zoutpansberg mountains. j Two brothers named Coltze, farmers, have bean brought to Mafeking on a charge of harbouring Boers who offered to surrender. When the Britirh visited Coltze's farm, instead of fulfilling their promise, they killed one of the British and wounded another, and then escaped. The Cape Colony loyalists are delighted that the lenient Treason Act is Buper-3dod. A good effect is folio wing. Cl v *hß Hon. J. H. S. Byng, command e South African Light Horse, ojptured sixteen Boers, fifty horses, and a quantity of ammunition at Bosmandorp. A British patrol guarding a waterhole at Agenthins, JNamaqualand, wag captured by the enemy. The post has sines been reoccupied by the British. The Women's Liberal Unionist Association is distributing on the Continent pamphlets giving authentic information regarding South Africa, which is counteracting the calumnies against the British. Lord Lansdowne has appointed a Commission to investigate the claims of foreigners deported from South Africa to Europe. Received 11, 9.59 a.m. Melbourne, April 11. Lieut. Kendall, of New Zealand, is amongst the number of invalids arrived by the Ortona. Four hundred thousand sovereigns have been shipped to South Africa, miking a total this year of X 1,000,000 and since the war commenced .£3,425,000. Perth, April 11. The Sixth Contingent has sailed in the Ulstermore for South Africa. A PEAGUK CASE.

REBELS CROSS THE RIVER. t CASUALTIES. Received 11,10.37 p.m. London, April 11. A member of the New South Wales Sixth Contingent, which recently arrived at Capetown, has centricted pligue. Van Keecans and Luther's commando?, a thousand fitroiip, have cio sed over the liver at Mudifjntein Drift by means of rafts. Twelve were drowned while crossing. Corpora' Borwick, Victorian, and Privates Andel anl Ti>oma«, Australian Bushmen, v\ere . everely wounded in engagements. PROSPECTS OF PEACE. DE WET MENTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE. BOTHA INTERVIEWING KITCHENER. Received 11, 10 41 p.m. | London, April 11. Bent r's Capetown correspondent ►tates "h it Bath i is prepared to reopen prace nego'iations on behalf of the central Beer force. His rec«nt visit has convinced Botha <-h«t Da Wet is mental y irresponsible and his influence is diminishing. B nnett Burleigh reports that it is semi-cflkiilly stated at. Capetown that Botha had further interviewed Kitchener at Degiers.