THE SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE.
SURRENDER OF NINETY BOERS.
SIR A. MILNER TO HAVE AN AUDIENCE WITH THE KING.
(By Electric Telegraph. — Copyrignt.) (Per United Preaa Association.) LONDON, May 18.
Ninety more Boers, including Commandant Barendvorsten,-*and Beystek, ex-Landroat of Petersburg, surrendered. It is now stated that Commandant Lotter Van Reenan, not De Wet, led a fresh force across the Orange River into Zuurberg. They are" trying to ioin one df the bands roving over Cape Colony. The Times' Pretoria correspondent and Reuter's Durban correspondent a?ree that the daily stream xif voluntary capitulations everywhere is the result of the British campaign on the bush veldt and the severity of the winter. Tho King has intimated that he will accord Sir A. Milner an audience immediately he arrives from South Africa on Friday. Lord Salisbury and the Hon. J. Chamberlain will accompany Sir A. Milner. In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain announced that the Government did not intend to rebuild farm houses burned 5n South Africa.
STRONG FOROF. OP BOEBS DEFEATED.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10343, 20 May 1901, Page 2
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169THE SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10343, 20 May 1901, Page 2
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