The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-09-04
ACCUSED OF TREASON.
The Ex-Governor Of johannesburg
Arrested In London.
TERMS THE CHARGE ABSURD
A Pretoria Dispatch Gives Details of
Attack on u PietersberE Train In
Which the British Sustained
Many Casualties.

| London. Sept. al Krause, ex.
governor Of Johannesburg and prom.
inent official of the late Transvaal gov.
| ernment, who was taken into custody
In London during the night has been
charged at the Bow Street police court
with high treason in the Transvaal un-
der the fugitive offenders law and was
remanded for week without bail.
No evidence except as to DR.. krause's
arrest being offered. Sir George Lewis
on behalf of the prisoner asked If any
deposition against his client supporting
the charge existed. Prosecutor Muit
replied that there was, of course. in
formation against the accused in Cape
Colony. The police here, he said, had
acted upon telegrnphic instructions.
The police testified that DR.. krause
when arrested looked at the warrant
and remarked, The charge is absurd"
A dispatch from Lord Kitchener dat
ed Pretoria says:
"Since Aug 20 the columns report 10
Beers killed, 3 wounded, 2l2 made pris
oners and 127 surrendered and that
l04 rifles, 27.500 rounds of ammunition,
100 horses and 1900 head of cattle
have been captured"
A well mounted force of Beers has
looted Barrydale, in the Swellerdam
district, 40 miles from Cape Town.
Scheeper's Boer command passed clos.
to Montague, 100 miles from Cape
Town, and had slight brush with the
local scouts. They had spare horses
and were apparently well equipped. A
column of troops has gone in pursuit.
A dispatch from Pretoria gives de.
tails of the attack on a Petersburg
train near that city already reported
by Lord Kitchener.
Boer Plans Well Laid.
According to the dispatch, the Beers, |
numbering 100. cunningly selected o
deep cutting, mined the railway and |
blew 1t up with Martini mechanism,
which was placed beneath rail. The
man who made the connection did so |
prcmaturely and caused the explosion
as train of trucks was passing over |
the point These trucks had been plac-
ed In front Of the engine for the pur
pose of saving the train proper from
just such an explosion. Little damage
was done to the trucks.
AS soon as the explosion occurred
the Beers opened fire from the banks
into the armored trucks, killing ten
and wounding seventeen men.
Lieutenant Colonel Vandelcur gal
lantly stepped on platform to direct
his men and was shot point blank and
killed. A Dutch nursemaid, it is al
legged, was shot deliberately by young
Boer who knew her.
The Beers took all the passengers
vauables and money and even their
boots and then burned the train.
The attack was made on a section of
the line south of Pinaars, which had
never before been interfcrcd with. The
line is not fully protected by block
houses, the system having been applied
first to the places that We're considered
to be most in need of It.
The system has been applied to about
two thousand miles of railway, block
houses being erected at every 1,500
yards. In consequence Of the vast ex-
tent of the work material is becoming
scarce. The building of blockhouses
on the line where the attack was made
Is being actively carried on.