The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-09-11
CAPT. WELLS TAKEN IN AMBUSH
ExAsPERATIN6 FOX HUNTING
AND VERY FEW SIGNS
or PROGRESS.
De Wet Issues Proclamation Ina:
He Viii Shoot All British Troops
Found In Orange River Colony
After Sept. IS.

| LONDON. Sept "A dispatch from
Cape Town says, The force OF Cot.
onels Seobell and Doran have driven
| General Botha into the Mortimer dis
trict- Nearly all OF Colonel Bothas
horses are in an exhausted condition
and fully one quarter OF his comman-
/ do is dismounted. General Botha. un-
| fortunately for the British. captured
thirty remOunts.
! The BOer invaders are threatening
Zuurbrak Pass Cape Colony. which
commands SweIlendam. The place Is
we'll defended. however, and il Is not
| likely that the Beers will attempt TO
enter the town.
LONDON. Sept 4.-'De Wet has
issued proclamation. says dis
patch TO the Daily Mail from Cape
Town, that he will shoot all British
troops found in Orange River Colony
after September 18th
| CAPE TOWN. Sept Sit is re-
ported that COmmandant Myburg has
issued an order directing that all arm
ed colonials captured after September
18th are to be shot.
| Captain Wells, with a patrol OF
/ twenty-five men from Oudstschoru.
was taken in ambush near Meiring-
spoort He and two men escaped;
three others were killed and fou-
woun6ed. and the rest who surrend
cred and took the oath Of neutrality.
were released.
| LONDON. Sept. 3.-The Colonial
Office published today a dispatch from
the Governor of Cape CoiOny. Sir
Walter Hutchinson. received
September ist. announcing that the
Beers on August 27th captured two
unarmed British scouts, near Hare
kloof. and shot them In cold blood
well-mounted force OF Beers has
| looted Barrydale, In the Swellendam
district f14O miles from Cape Town.
Scheeper's Boer commando passed
close TO Montague yesterday and had
a slight brush with the local scouts.
They had spare horses and were ap-
parently veil equipped. A column OF
troops has gone in pursuit
dispatch from Middelburg TO the
Times says the approach OF mid-Sep-
tember has had the effect OF drawing
a sharp line between the two parties
among the Cape Colony Dutch. a few
Of them have joined the lighting
burghers in consequence OF eNaspera-
ton at Lord KitcheneT's latest pro-
clamation. but others have thrown in
their lot with the British.
Last week the British authorities
received two offers on the part OF the
Dutch inhabitants OF Cape Colony 20
raise special corps 10 hunt for BOer
rebels ScheepeT's recent dash into
the southwest corner of Cape COLONY
is regarded as unimpOrtant His 3Os
followers are mostly boys. and half
his horses are In poor condition
A dispatch from Lord Kitchener.
dated Pretoria. today says; Since
August 2sth the columns report nine
teen Beers killed. three wounded. 2i2
made prisoners and 12T surrendered.
and that 104 rifles. 275s0 rounds OF
ammunition. 100 horses and 1900
head OF cattle have been captured.
5oer Attack On a Train.
LONDON. Sept 3.-The Pretoria
correspondent OF the Daily Telegraph
in a dispatch describing the blowing
up of a train between Waterfall and
Hammonskraal Saturday by the Beers.
when Lieutenant-Coiol 2 Vaudeleur OF
the Irish GuardG was killed. says
The train carried several passengers.
among them two ladies Eith babes and
nurse. As IL tOiled through a cut a
negro was seen 20 raise his hand In
stantly BOer discharged two mines.
derailing the train. while a body of
Beers poured IN a heavy rife FIRE.
-Lieutenant- Colonel Vandelenr got
the women TO lie down under the
seats. and ordered his men 10 return
the FIRE As be was proceeding along
the corridor a BOer burst into the
carriage and hzed. killing bim. after
il Is supposed. he refused to surrender
Another Boer deliberately fred upon
and wounded the nurse. Bullets we're
flying in all directions. although the
Beers we're aware that wO men ana
children xere there
LONDON. Sept 3-Dr Krarse.
former Governor OF Johannesburg.
and a prominent Official og the late
Transvaal Government was arrested
in London last night on a charge OF
high treason, He viii be arraigned TO-
dav at Bow-street Police Court
A dispatch from Pretoria saws. Van
Aartsen and Trous. two Hollanders.
have been tried By court martial for
breaking their oaths OF neutrality and
spying The principal evidence against