The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-06-05
BOER VOTE FOR PEACE.
Fifty.four Delegates Favored While
Only Six Opposed Surrender.
PREPARING TO GIVE UP THEIR ARMS.
General 6cths Exhorts the 6urahcrs to
Be loyal 10 the New Government.
Thanksgiving Services.

Pretoria Transvaal. June THE ballot
OF the Boers at vcweninglng resulted tn "A |
voices In favor OF surrender and against t. |
Preparations arc being made here for the |
surrender 0f the Roer conmandos which |
viii take place ON the race course All the |
Borrs are allowed perfect freedom, There |
VII be a thanksgiving service Sunday, Juhe |
s, on the church square, In witch Il Is |
hoped the Beers viii participate The |
woMcn of the concentration camps are anx.
ious to return 10 their homes immediately, |
but this will be impossible until system Of
supply depots for the outlying districts Is
General Baden Powell Is arranging FOR the
distribution 81 mountcd ccnstahulary IN
various districts. Ihe police, railroads and
telegtJphs VIII he handed over To the ciyll
authorities as soon as possible, and the re
trictioms q bital law be gradually re-
Taxed.
negotiations were stin and unfrcndly are
NOW extremely cordial. All the command
ants are returning TO their commandos In
order to r>plnin the situation. General
Louis BothR, the Boer commandment general,
has written an open iettur to the hurgners
thanking tbs m for their obedience In tho
past ana oXhortug them 10 be equally loyal
H. thci; obedience to the uew government.
BoERs APPRECIATE KITCHENER,
| Lord Kltchencr's address to the Boer del
cgates AT Vnfrcpngng, in which the Lett
I ish comma der In chief sald that II he had
| been one Of them he would have been
proud to have done so well in the held
as they had done. made the best possible
! Impression and drew forth hearty re-
! sponsc from General Bcyers, the chairman
| OF the bCer conference, who expressed the
pleasure the Beers experienced at meeting
| Lord Kitchener as 4 fliond, adding that
they had fought 50 long agelnst MN thaat
they had acquired full appreciation of his
The departure Of the Boer commanders
fiom Neleenngng for tholr various dis.
tricts was marked by remarkable scenes OF
determination. The tfainS conveying the
Beers started late and the night being OK.
trcmcly cold the sentries along the railroad
ttnck Ngntrd huge hondres around which
gr, ups Of Beers end Britone gathered form
Ing a highly picturesque scene The late Op,
Times come Again No More" and 'uld
Folks al Home" tho British soldiers and
tho hurghers outvieing one another In thtii
demonstrations of JOY. In brief, the scenes
, nothing so much as the starting Of huge
picnlc parties Tho same signs Of rejo.cms
we're witnessed throughout thc Rand. Rag
were displayed everywhere 0nd thAnkSgiN
ing services were held In all the towns
, General Botha and General he N Key ~
, other Boer leaders Will start for Europe
/, shortly for the purpose OF raising tuha
, Tor the distressed hurghers,
General Schalkberger, who was actini
president OF the rrnnsvnol joined Genera
botha IN addressing an omen letter TO Ia
T bnrrbers After referring to the conrag
= which they had displayed and 10 their BRAY
u dprds in the Held, he called on thcm 10 Woi,
? together for the social and spiritual al
u yancemcut Of the country
u KITCHENER ROUND FOR LONDON.