BOER SYMPATHISERS ARRESTED.
200 YEOMANRY RECRtTITS RE-
JECTED
Received August 25, 4.29 p.m.
LONDON, August 24." A number of Boer sympathisers at Sw«elondahm have been arrested.
Commandant; Smult and 120 men trekr ked 30 miles south of Edanburg, across the railway, in the direction of Basutoland.
Lord Kitchener 'has permitted the immediate return of 300 refugees to the Rand beyond the usual monthly number.
Lord Kitchener lias sent back 200 Yeomanry Tecruits as radically unfit, suffering from varieocele, heart disease, and deafness. He complains bitterly of the slipshod examination of recruits in England. The "Times," -with a view to speedily terminating the campaign, urges the employment ©f seasoned British troops from India, prior to their return to England, the tired .South African campaigners replacing thejn in India. Owing to the difficulty of obtaining a representative gathering of members and the danger of inflammatory speedhes, it is not expected that tlie Cape Parliament will assemble <even by October, unless the situation changes. The Govrnor of the colony will meantime issue warrants for expenditure.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 26 August 1901, Page 3
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