Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — Botha Makes Escape. [ARTICLE]

Botha Makes Escape.

New York telegram.—Heavy rains have temporarily interfered with communications between the columns in the field, says a Dundee, Natal, dispatch to the Times. As was feared, the Boer force, in trying to mike good its escape, has melted into small groups. Commandant-General Botha and the main body of burghers, accompanied by three commandants, have reached Pongola forest, near Lunebnrg, Transvaal. So great is the agitation aroused by the recent speech of Sir Redvers Buller that, according to the Tribune’s London correspondent, Gen. Buller is being urged by his friends to publish without delay the full text of his heliogram to Gen. White in reference to the surrender of Ladysmith.