BRITAIN & THE TRANSVAAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11817, 14 November 1901, Page 2

BRITAIN & THE TRANSVAAL.

DE WET STILL ACTIVE. „„ -. DE LA REV AND KEMP IN TltK i TRANSVAAL. T BOER DELEGATES AT BERLIN. ' Jnited Press Association.— By Elec* trie Telegraph.— Copyright. Received November 13, 10.53 p.m, * London, November 13.— De Wet is Lssem'bling a force in north-eastern )range Colony. Columns are movng to disperse them. Major-General French reports that Commandant Maritz's attack on Pituetburg on the 7th instant' was iasily repulsed. ■ Fouche has dynamited the railway it Vryfeurg siding. Major-General Methuen is pursuing )e la Rey and Kemp in the Western Transvaal. . The Times' Brussels correspondent states that Leyds and Fischer- ,ar<j/isiting Berlin, with the object of naking a supreme effort to- obtain the Kaiser's mediation, LORD KITCHENER'S WEEKLY REPORT. Received November 13, 11.0 p.m. " London, November 13.— Lord K,it:hener's weekly report states that 33 Boers were killed, 105 WoundeU. LO4 taken prisoners, and 45 surrendered. TRIBUTE TO DE WET. - " Received November 14, 12.25 a.m, Berlin, November 13.— Five hun. dred Germans whose nam.es - are Christian have erected a m6nume'n^* to Commandant Christian De ~Wet, at, Scheirerstin, in Germany t -V. SENTENCES ON REBELS^; , ■ . KRUGER'S PROPOSED SETt4'TJ< MENT DENIED. - . Received November 14, 8.56 a.m.. London, November I*3.— Major Fra» ser and 150 Victorian Moufpd Infantry captured eleven Boers^on tLe aight of the occasion when Lfe'uten-; ant Crißp's party was cut -up^ ' • A rebel, Vandyk, has beeo. executed for treason and for violently assaulting the postmistress at Marais* burg. The sentences on the r«fcel3' Vaurensburg, for treason and mtfrder at Colesburg, and Mailer, a "fttrifa'er at Beaufort West, for at^enipted murder have, been commuted* td imprionment for life. Vaurensburg^waa also fined £1000. ~ „V . ; A. Wolmarans, a Boer peatie ."delegate, contradicts the story of-Kru-* ger's plan of settlement. He^B>d>ls the absolute independence of. tha Boer is essential, and the Rand' Wil l" nol be ceded. < -;