The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-19
Beers ACTING WE'LL
PROGRESS OF THEIR SURRENDER
SATISFACTORY.
Lord Kitchener Is Greatly Pleased
with Prospects - over 1900 Beers
Have Laid Down Their Arms.

LONDON, June Lord Kitchener
in dispatch from Pretoria da,ed to-
day announced that the progress made
i'm the surrender of the Beers is entire
ly satisfactory. Four hundred and for
ty burghers have laid down their guns
at Middleburg. They also brought i'm a
pompon complete with ammunition
ana indicated the hiding places of
hoWitzer and Maxim gun.
Two hundred and eighty-nine Beers
have surrendered their arms at STAN
derton, Transvaal, and Lord Kitchener
1 confirms the report that POS soldiers. of
Whom ZIG were rebels, surrendered at
| Craddock, Cape Colony. MANY more
surrenders are expected today. All the
| Beers who surrendered in Cape Colony
reJolced that peace had been arranged.
CAPE TOWN. June THE surren-
DER OF more than 1900 Beers has already
Deen reported from various points.
Comnnandant Fouche brought into
Craddock, Cape Colony, his commando
consisting of thirty-six Free Stoters
and 2l9 rebels. Fouche is III. Com
mandant Conroys men, on hearing
| that peace had been concluded. threw
thelr mats in the air, cheered for King
reward and sang God Save the
King"
THESE incidents dssipate the fear ex-
pressed that the Cape Colony com
mandos would refuse to acccdo TO tbp
peace terms. General Christian de Wet
Is personally experimenting the sur
ISHuer OF the Beers in the Vredorort
lOrange River Colony) district
General Schalk Burger. former act
ing President of the Transvaal. who is
the guest of the Governor of Natal
Colonel Sir Henry Edward McCaImm
at Pietermaritzburg. in an address to
/ the Durghers in the concentration
camp, asked them to make the best of
the situation and to forget and for
give the past. He pointed out tho
hopelessness of continuing the strup-
gle, urged the Beers to accent and
act in accordance with the terms of
surrender, which he intended to up-
hold and desired them to work for
the good of South Africa.
AMSTERDAM June 1T is re-
ported here that Mr.. Kruger has de-
clined the facilities offered by Great
britain for his return to South Africa.
but has accepted Queen Wilhelmina's
proiter of a Dutch vessel to convey
MIN to South Africa, when he decides
to return there.
NEW YORK, June "a cable to the
sun from Durham. Natal. saws: Schalk
burger, former acting President of the
IransvaaL in an interview published
] IN the Mercury, says General Joubert
| dled OF illness and not of wounds as had
| been reported. Stevn was i'm favor of
| peace, and illness alone prevented him
| from attending the netting of the Boer
! leaders at which the terms concluding
hostilities We're signed Schalk Burger
said that there had been no correspond
ehce WIN krueger concerning the peace
negotiations. The Beers admired the
conduct of Kitchener, and visits to the
various camps showed that the reople
are glad that the war is ended.
The Mercury publishes translation
Of the circular of the BOer leaders In
structtng the readers to sign the peace
/ conditions The document points out
that there was no further hope OF pro-
curing independence, the country was
being devastated and means of sub
sistence We're disappearing The Boer
leaders were also Influenced i'm favor
of peace by the distress among the
families in the British concentration
camps, moreover the Beers could not
retain thousands of prisoners like the
enemy A small number of Beers and
overwhelming number of British pre-
Guided the hope of victory despite sacri-
fees
BLOOMFONTEIN. (Orange River
Colony. June "a strong contrast to
the feeling between Boer and Rriton
is the bitterness existing between the
Durghers who are surrendering under
the peace terms and those Beers who
surrendered during the campaign
When the Boer leaders came to Bloom
fontein, previous to the conclusion of
peace, they curtly refused to shake
hands with those who had previously
surrendered during the campaign
! these al ~ l..
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