THE BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 173, 3 August 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

•—— GKNEKAL ITEMS. PER PBESS A'SOCIATION. London, August 1. Many of the Cape poorwhi'es are joining eommandos in order to obtain loot. The Standard Bsnk is closing its branches owing to their nob being pro-, w'ed by the military against raiders. A commandant near Krugercdorp fered to send to the British cimps ie femels relatives of recent surienBrery. The offer was accepted a? they ere lacking provisiens. A commando with two guns entered 'ortuguese territory at Guanetz, and 00 Portuguese treops are demanding leir surrender. - The main force of the Boers are rithin a quadrilateral area bounded by nes diawn from Beaufort West to De iar, thence to Stormherg, and by jueenstown to Btaufort West Thay ie split up into cumereus bodies of rom ten to 50 men. Another group is in the HerschelLliwal North distr ct, while a smaller ol'ection is situated in the West. Fjrmers everywhere support the . nemy. Duplessif, a Brer, who was arrested Jr murdeung Lieutenant Neuraeyer n Rouxvile district in 1900, andj, famhyn, who wos a member of the, Japa Legislature, together with several : armers at Vaurhynsdorp, who were rrested for treason during the invasen of Caps tfr.i'ory last January, lave been admitted to bail. CAPTURE OF A BRITISH PATROL. CRUELTY TO NATIVES. '' I PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received August 2,11 p.m. London, August 2. ] Lord Kitchener reports that 200 3oers surrounded and captured, and ' afterwards released, a patrol consisting -, it 20 Yeomanry at Doom River, < )range Colony. After the patrel had i ] urrendered the Boers ehot all the | ] lative scouts accompanying the patrol. J They also killed a wouqded Yeoman in ] nMake for a Cap« boy. j Major General French reports that Kruitzingec has written announcing ' lis intention to shoot all catives in British employ, armed or unarmed. MUny cases of cold-blooded murder of natives are oecuring in Cape Colony, PEAOEFUL DISTRICTS, Received 3,1 am. London, August 2. Major - General Featherstonhaugh has scoured the fertile country between Rustenberg and Z Br"* 1 -, and found hundreds of farmsteads quio'ly pursuing agriculture. Lirge captures of s*ock and immense quantities of concealed grain and mealies were removed or destroyed.