Now Therefore,
I, Frederick Sleigh Baron Roberts of Kandahar, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C., Field Marshal and Commanding-in-Chief of the British forces in South Africa, do hereby appoint Lieutenant Colonel Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard, D.S.O., Director of Railways, South African Field Force, Administrator of the State Railways in such portions of the Orange Free State as have been or may hereafter be occupied by British Troops. And I do hereby order that the Railway and Railway Telegraph Services shall be resumed in the portions of the aforesaid Republic already referred to, from the nineteenth day of March, 1900, under the existing Laws and Conventions of the Orange Free State, subject to such alterations as may from time to time be notified, and to the requirements of the army.
Given under my hand at Bloemfontein, this Thirtieth Day of March, 1900.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Roberts, Field-Marshal,
Commanding-in-Chief British Forces
in South Africa.
"THE RUSSIANS CAPTURE LONDON."
BY H. A. GWYNNE.
Bloemfontein, Thursday, received Friday.
Kruger is reported to have proclaimed the annexation of the Free State to the Transvaal.
It is also reported that he is circulating a proclamation that England is in dire straits, the Russians have occupied London and proclaimed it Russian territory (Reuter).