BOER WAR ANNIVERSARY
The thirtieth anniversary of the commencement of the South African War fell on Saturday. President Kruger’s ultimatum to the British Government, which was presented to the. British agent at Pretoria on October 9, 1899, requested, an assurance by the evening of October 11 that the British troops on the Transvaal border would be immediately withdrawn, that reinforcements which already had arrived in South Africa would be removed within “a reasonable time,” and that any troops then on the way would not be landed. The reply refusing compliance with these demands was handed to the Boer overnment on October 12. On the same day the first blow in the war was struck by an attack by the Boers on a British armoured train, between Capetown and Kimberley. New Zealand sent in all ten contingents to the war, the first leaving on October 21, 1899, and the tenth in April, 1902. The ten contingents comprised a total of about 6400 men. The war was brought to a close by the signing of the Vereeniging treaty on Mav 31, 1902.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1929, Page 12
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