11. Juni 1900. Nr. 12274. and operation on being approved of by the Military Governor. || 8. I do hereby appoint E. Blyth, Esq., provisionally to be Sheriff of the said Court, and I do order that the said Sheriff shall do all acts necessary to enforce and carry out all sentences of the said Court. Nr. 12275. 19. Juni 1900. God save the Queen. Given under my hand and seal at Pretoria, this 11th day of June 1900. Nr. 12275. Mafsregeln gegen Beschädigung von Eisenbahnen und anderen öffentlichen Eigentums. 19. Juni 1900. Referring to my Proclamation, dated Pretoria, 16th June 1900, I, Frederick Sleigh, Baron Roberts, of Kandahar and Waterford, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C., Field-Marshal, Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Troops in South Africa, do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known, that, should any damage be done to any of the lines of railway or to any of the railway bridges, culverts, or buildings, or to any telegraph lines or other railway or public property in the Orange River Colony, or in that portion of the South African Republic for the time being within the sphere of my military operations, the following punishment will be inflicted: 1. The principal residents of the town and districts will be held, jointly and severally, responsible for the amount of damage done in their district. 2. In addition to the payment of the damage above mentioned, a penalty depending upon the circumstances of each case, but which will in no event be less than a sum of 2s. 6d. per morgen on the area of each farm, will be levied and recovered from each burgher of the district in which the damage is done in respect of the land owned or occupied by him in such district. Furthermore, all receipts for goods requisitioned in such district on behalf of the military authorities will be cancelled, and no payment whatsoever will be made in respect of the same. || 3. As a further precautionary measure, the Director of Military Railways has been authorized to order that one or more of the residents, who will be selected by him from each district, shall from time to time personally accompany the trains while travelling through their district. || 4. The houses and farms in the vicinity of the place where the damage is done will be destroyed, and the residents in the neighbourhood dealt with under Martial Law. || 5. The military authorities will render every facility to the principal residents to enable them to communicate the purport of this Proclamation to the other residents in their district, so that all persons may become fully cognisant of the responsibility resting upon them. Roberts, Field-Marshal, Commander-in-Chief, South Africa. Army Head-quarters, Pretoria, 19th June 1900. Nr. 12276. Über die Gütereinfuhr in die Südafrikanische Republik. 27. Juli 1900. 27. Juli 1900. Whereas it is necessary to make provision for the importation of goods Nr. 12276. into such portions of the territory of the South African Republic as are or may be in the occupation of Her Majesty's Forces: || Now, therefore, I, Frederick Sleigh, Baron Roberts, of Kandahar and Waterford, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C., Field-Marshal, Commanding in Chief Her Majesty's Troops in South Africa, do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known as follows: 1. The importation of goods as aforesaid is permitted, subject to the following conditions: - || (a.) That a permit for such importation has been previously obtained from a Military Governor or District Commissioner, or some Officer duly authorized by him; || (b.) That customs duties are paid on all goods imported. These duties shall, for the present and until further provision is made therefore, be levied according to the tariff fixed by the Government of the South African Republic, as set out in pages 111 to 116 inclusive of the Staats Almanak voor de Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, 1899. || 2. In the case of goods imported from or through the Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope or Natal, the Customs duties as aforesaid shall be paid to the Collectors of Customs in those Colonies, and I do hereby, subject to the consent of the Governments of the aforesaid Colonies, nominate and appoint the said Collectors of Customs to be my agents for the collection of such duties. || 3. The permits mentioned in Section 1, sub-section (a), shall be issued subject to such regulations as may from time to time be made by a Military Governor or District Commissioner in respect of the district administered by him. || 4. Any goods imported as aforesaid without payment of the proper Custom duties or contrary to the regulations mentioned in the preceding section, shall be liable to confiscation, and the importer or his agent shall, in addition, be liable to the payment of a fine not exceeding three times the amount of the Custom duties thereon. Army Head-quarters, South Africa, Roberts, Field-Marshal, Nr. 12277. An die Einwohner der Südafrikanischen Republik. Bestrafung der Eidbrecher und Eidweigerer. Zer- Whereas by Proclamation No. 1 of 1900*), burghers who had not taken Nr. 12277. a prominent part in the hostilities were allowed, upon taking an oath, to 14.Aug.1900. return to their homes, and were not dealt with as prisoners of war, and || *) Nr. 12272. Staatsarchiv LXV. 8 Nr. 12277. Whereas by Proclamation No. 2 of 1900, burghers to whom passes and permits 14. Aug.1900. had been granted might retain their stock, or take them to the winter veld, and || Whereas many burghers have taken the said oath, but have, notwithstanding this oath, taken up arms against the forces of Her Majesty the Queen, and || Whereas many burghers who have taken the said oath have aided and abetted the enemy in raiding trains and destroying property belonging to the Forces of Her Majesty the Queen, or have acted as spies for the enemy, and || Whereas the Government of the South African Republic considers such oath immoral, and has issued a notice warning all burghers against taking the said oath, and || Whereas it is manifest that the leniency which has been extended to the burghers of the South African Republic is not appreciated by them, but, on the contrary, is being used as a cloak to continue the resistance against the Forces of Her Majesty the Queen, and || Whereas there are no means of distinguishing the combatant from the non-combatant portion of the population: || Now, therefore, I, Frederick Sleigh, Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C, Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Forces in South Africa, do hereby proclaim and make known as follows: 1. That from and after this date Sections 1 and 2 of Proclamation No.1 of 1900 are repealed, except in respect of those burghers who have already taken the said oath. || 2. That Proclamation No. 2 of 1900 is repealed. || 3. That all such persons who have taken the said oath, and who have in any way broken such oath, will be punished with either death, imprisonment, or fine. || 4. That all burghers in the districts occupied by Her Majesty's Forces, except such as have already taken the said oath, shall be regarded as prisoners of war, and shall be transported or otherwise dealt with as I may determine. || 5. That all buildings and structures on farms on which the scouts or other forces of the enemy are harboured will be liable to be razed to the ground. || 6. That the fine mentioned in Proclamation No. 6*) of 1900, Section 2, shall be rigorously exacted where any damage is done to the railway, and persons are hereby warned to acquaint Her Majesty's Forces with the presence of the enemy upon their farms, and, failing to do so, they will be regarded as aiding and abetting the enemy. God Save the Queen. Given under my hand and seal, at Pretoria, this 14th day of August, 1900. Roberts, Field-Marshal, Commander-in-Chief, South Africa. With reference to paragraph 6, the fine therein mentioned shall in no event be less than a sum of 2s. 6d. per morgen on the area of each farm. *) Nr. 12275. Nr. 12278. Annexion der Südafrikanischen Republik unter dem Namen Transvaal. 1. September 1900. Whereas certain territories in South Africa, hitherto known as the South African Republic, have been conquered by Her Majesty's Forces, and it has seemed expedient to Her Majesty that the said territories should be annexed to, and should henceforth form part of Her Majesty's dominions, and that I should provisionally and until Her Majesty's pleasure is more fully known, be appointed Administrator of the said territories, with power to take all such measures, and to make and enforce such laws as I may deem necessary for the peace, order, and the good government of the said territories. || Now, therefore, I, Frederick Sleigh, Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C., Field-Marshal, Commanding-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Forces in South Africa, by Her Majesty's command, and in virtue of the power and authority conferred on me in that behalf by Her Majesty's Royal Commission, dated the fourth day of July, nineteen hundred, in accordance with Her Majesty's instructions thereby and otherwise signified to me, from and after the publication hereof, do proclaim that the territories known as the South African Republic are annexed to and form part of Her Majesty's dominions, and that provisionally, and until Her Majesty's pleasure is fully declared, the said territories will be administered by me with such powers as aforesaid. Her Majesty is pleased to direct that the new territories shall henceforth be known as the Transvaal. God Save the Queen. Given under my hand and seal, at Head-quarters of the Army in South Africa, in the said territories, this first day of September, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred. Roberts, Field-Marshal, Commanding in Chief, Her Majesty's Forces in South Africa. Nr. 12279. Krüger und Reitz haben durch ihre Flucht auf portugiesisches Gebiet ihre Sache aufgegeben. Eine Intervention der Grossmächte ist unmöglich. Nr. 12278.1 1. Sept. 1900, The late President, Mr. Kruger, and Mr. Reitz, with the archives of the Nr. 12279. South African Republic, have crossed the Portuguese frontier, and arrived at Lourenço Marques with a view to sailing for Europe at an early date. || Mr. Kruger has formally resigned the position he held as President of the South African Republic, thus severing his official connection with the Transvaal. Mr. Kruger's action shows how hopeless in his opinion is the war which has now been carried on for nearly a year, and his desertion of the Boer cause should make it clear to his fellow burghers that it is useless for them to continue the struggle any longer. || It is probably unknown to the inhabitants 14.Sept.1900. Nr. 12279. of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony that nearly 15000 of their fellow14. Sept. 1900. subjects are now prisoners of war, not one of whom will be released until those now in arms against us surrender unconditionally. || The burghers must by this time be cognisant of the fact that no intervention on their behalf can come from any of the Great Powers, and, further, that the British Empire is determined to complete the work which has already cost her so many valuable lives, and to carry to its conclusion the war declared against her by the late Governments of the South African Republic and Orange Free State, a war to which there can be but one ending. || If any further doubts remain in the minds of the burghers as to Her Britannic Majesty's intentions, they should be dispelled by the permanent manner in which the country is gradually being occupied by Her Majesty's Forces, and by the issue of the Proclamations signed by me on the 24th May and 1st September 1900, annexing the Orange Free State and the South African Republic respectively, in the name of Her Majesty. || I take this opportunity of pointing out that, except in the small area occupied by the Boer army under the personal command of CommandantGeneral Botha, the war is degenerating, and has degenerated, into operations carried on in an irregular and irresponsible manner by small, and in very many cases, insignificant bodies of men. || I should be failing in my duty to Her Majesty's Government and to Her Majesty's Army in South Africa if I neglected to use every means in my power to bring such irregular warfare to an early conclusion. || The means which I am compelled to adopt are those which the customs of war prescribe as being applicable to such cases. They are ruinous to the country, and entail endless suffering on the burghers and their families, and the longer this guerilla warfare continues the more vigorously must they be enforced. Pretoria, September 14, 1900. Roberts, Field-Marshal, Commanding in Chief in South Africa. Nr. 12280. Nr. 12280. Behandlung der Buren, die sich freiwillig ergeben. As some doubt appears to exist as to the treatment of Boers who 22. Sept.1900. voluntarily surrender, the Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief desires that the following instructions be made known to all concerned:- || 1. All Burghers now captured or surrendering are prisoners of war but, Burghers are to be informed that if they surrender voluntarily they will not be sent out of South Africa, provided they have been guilty of no acts, other than fighting against us, which, in the opinion of the General Officer Commanding, debar them from this privilege. || 2. Should Burghers thus voluntarily surrendering be in possession of stock which is not immediately required for the use of the troops, General Officers Commanding may use their discretion in allowing one or two members of a family or group to be given a protection pass with |