London via Bombay, 7th May.
Col. Colenbrander has resumed operations against Commandant Beyers.
General Ian Hamilton has cleared considerable area west of Klerks-
The prospects of the result of negotiations are regarded as hopeful. The Pretoria delegates have been visiting the various Commandos with considerable success, securing consent to the policy of surrender. The irreconcilables are chiefly Delarey's_ men.—Reuter.
The British troops have captured Steinkop, a strong Boer position. The British had fourteen casualties and the Boer losses were heavy.—Reuter.
8th May.
Lord Kitchener reports that 10 Boers were killed and 208 captured in the southward drive against the Kroonstad—Lindley blockhouse line Amongst. the prisoners are some of the most irreconcilable Boers of the former Orange Free State.—Reuter.
Lord Salisbury, at a Primrose Gathering, speaking about the peace negotiations now proceeding, desired to remove any misapprehension that the Government was showing any willingness to retreat from its former position, There must be no possibility of a renewal of the struggle in South Africa, at the same time he desired to convey to his hearers the assurance that Great Britain had no feeling of bitterness against her opponents, whom he earnestly desired to see participating in the Colonial system lof government, but he deprecated prematr~}y hastening—Imperial
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