Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-03-01
TO SAVE HIS MEN
General CrOnje Surrendered to
Avoid the Useless Shedding
OF Blood.
British We're Steadily Lessen.
ing the Distance Between
Opposing Forces.
And Further Resistance Appear
ed USeleSs-SOme Details of
the Surrender.

PAARDEnERG, Feb. 27.-Gen. Cronje
sent an officer through the British lines
at dawn this morning with flag OF
truce. The officer said to Lord Kitch'
ener that General Cronje was willing tc
surrender and that he wished to avoid
the useless shedding Of blood and tc
save women and children. He requested
that they be given safe conduct. Gen.
eral Kitchener granted the request sc
far as the women and children were
concerned, but insisted that the surren-
der in all respects be absolutely uncon-
ditional. To this Cronje agreed.
LONDON, Feb. 2S.-4:SS p. m.-The
secretary Of state for war, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, announced in the house
of lords that the prisoners captured with
General Cronje numbered about 5000.
General Cronje will be sent to Cape
Town.
LONDON, Feb. 2S.-6:S5 p. m.-The
Wal OllCc 1ltlo 1SSuCu a A1oU VI ~ AOlA-
commissioned officers and men wounded
in the fighting at Paardeberg Sunday,
Feb. IS, including 63 Canadians and 20S
Highlanders.
LONDON, Feb. 28.-6:25 p. MT is
now announced that Lord Roberts has
notified the war Office that the number
Of Boer prisoners approximates 1000,
of which about l ,150 are citizens of the
Orange Free State. The remainder are
citizens of the Transvaal.
Twenty-nine Trans,aal officers were
captured and 1S Free State officers were
made prisoners.
The guns captured from the Trans.
vaal forces were three 75-centimeter
Krupps, nine 1-pounders and one
Maxim gun. From the Free Staters,
the British captured one 75-centimeter
Krupp and one Maxim gun.
LONDON, Feb. 2s.-7:07 p. m.-The
officers captured by General Roberts,
beside General Piet Cronje, include the
following well known commanders:
Chief Comnandant M. J. Wolverans,
member of the volksraad; Field Cor.
net Frus, a Scandinavian; Major AL.
brecht, the famous German artillery.
man; Major Won DEWITT, the distin.
guished German officer, responsible for
most of the splendid engineering works
of the Beers since the commencement
of the war.
LONDON, Feb. 2S.-5:02 p. m.-The
war Office has received the following
dispatch from Lord Roberts:
"Paardeberg, II O'Clock, Tuesday
morning.-From information furnished
daily to me by the intelligence depart.
ment, it became apparent that General
Cronje's force was becoming more de-
pressed and that the discomfort Of the
troops and the discord among the lead
ers We're rapidly increasing. This feel
ing was doubtless accentuated by the
disappointment caused when the Boer
reinforcements which tried to relieve
General Cronje were defeated by our
troops on Feb. 20. resolved, there
fore, to bring pressure to bear upon the
enemy. Each night the trenches were
pushed forward toward the en-.
emy's laager, so as to grad
ually contract his position,
and at the same time bombarded it
heavily with artillery, which was yes
terday materially aided by the arrival
of four 6-inch howitzers, which l had
ordered up from De Aar. In carrying
out these measures a captive balloon
gave great assistance by keeping us in
formed Of the disposition and move.
ments of the enemy. At 3 a. III. today
most dashing advance was made by
the Canadian regiment and some en-.
gineers, supported by the First Gordon
Highlanders and Second Shropshires.
resulting in our gaining point some
800 Yards nearer the enemy and within
so yards of his trenches, where our
men entrenched themselves and
maintained their positions until morn
ing, gallant deed, worthy Of our colo
NAL comrades and which, l am glad to
say, was attended by comparatively
slight loss.
"This apparently clinched matters,
for, at daylight today, a letter signed by
General Cronje, in which he stated that
he surrendered Internationally, was
brought to our outposts under flag Of
truce.
I'm my reply, told General Cronje
he must present himself at my camp,
and that his forces must come out of
their lager, after laying down their
arms. by a. M. 1 received General
Cronje and dispatched a telegram to an
nouncing the fact. In the course of
conversation he asked for kind treat