The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-27
.B()ER NAR'S CLOSING
Scene of Latest Operations
Bare of Burghers.
POLICE FORCE OF 10000
Sufficient, According TO the
New York Herald Man.

New York, Sept PA dispatch to the
Herald from Lorenzo Marques says:
1.-The Boer debacle is complete. By
dint of hard riding from Barberton your
correspondent overlook, first, General Ian
Hamilton's division, then that Of General
Pole-Carew and finally entered Komati-
poort. Not a shot was fired nor was a
Boer seen during the march
Evidence of the enemy's destructive
ness was everywhere to be seen. The
| bridges had ben dynamited, the stores,
! buildings and homesteads lcl,ted and
burned as had been also the railway
property, all the chief stations being
mere masses of smoking ruins. among
them Kaap Muiden, Hector Shruit and
Komatipoort AT the last place there is
an enormous area over which the Beers
have wrought destruction.
ANY good police force-say one of 20
900 men-can do the rest Of the work of
pacificauon for security. If General
Butler and the others move on te seize
the, passes, neither Ben Viljoen, the new
commandant general, with Steyn and
Schalkbuger, nor Koetze, with the rest
of the derelicts from Komatipoort, can
escape through the mountains toward
Lyndenburg and Petersburg, while to re-
mar in the low veldt at this season of
the year spells death for men and cattle.
The Portuguese have disarmed all the
Boer refugees taken.
THE final collapse of the Boer army
may be summarized as follows: When
the Beers, numbering 2,00o evacuated
Komatpoort they took UP positions be-
tween the LoboInbo range and the river.
They had good positions and could have
made d capital stand but owing to the
disorganization and lack of discipline that
We're prevalent they were only half
hearted. Wishing to avoid a conflict and
UNNECESSARY bloodshed, the British con-
sui general consulted the Portuguese
governor general, Senior Nfachado, as to
the best course to be pursued to attain
this end. he asked that emtssaries
should be sent up with an address to the
Beers pointing out the uselessness of con-
tinung their resistance and the absolute
needie ssness of going on further. Be-
sides, if they continued to fight there
was a fear of the natives rising. Owing
OF the fact that the Portuguese had been
most kind to the Beers, and as they had
guaranteed their maintenance and re-
patriation and promised to send them
back to their country free of charge, the
scheme succeeded beyond the widest
hopes of it's originators. Instead of doz-
ems coming down to Lourenzo aMrques
$500 arrived in this wise. Diplomacy
therefore triumphed by bringing the war
to a speedy and bloodless close"
Lourenzo Marques, Sept. 26.-The Ger
man steamer Herzog. which sailed for
Europe today, had among her passengers
the TransFaal postmaster general, Van
Alphen; the assistant secretary of state
Groebler; the state treasurer, MaIherbe
and large quantity of bar gold. The
railroad from Delagoa Bay to Pretoria is
expected TO be open for traffic tomorrow
London, Sept. 26.-Lord oRberts reports
that General Ian Hamilton found at the
Crocodile river, near Hector Spruit, thir-
teen guns. including several lost by the
British They were mostly destroyed.