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Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 127, 25 November 1901, Page 5

CABLE NEWS [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.- COPYRIGHT.]

THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR ■» ANGLOPHOBIA IN GERMANY. THE AGITATION SUBSIDING. fPBESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, 23rd November. Owing to the comments of the British press some of the German newspapers nave adopted a calmer 'tone. Many of them omit the English comments lest they should aggravate matters. The Frankfurter Zeitung counsels sobermindedness and caution lest there should be a sacrifice of Great Britain's friendship through the ulterior motives of the instigators of Anglophobia. NEW ZEALANDERS AT THE FRONT LONDON, 23rd November. Lieutenants G. Banks and M. H. Jones, of the Sixth New Zealanders, are convalescent, and have resumed duty. ARREST OF BOER CONSPIRATORS. LONDON, 23rd November. By the simultaneous arrest of 23 suspects a conspiracy at Johannesburg was nipped in the bud. The steamer Ben High, which had been detained by the London Customs authorities, on suspicion of being laden with arms for the Boers, has been released. The vessel is intended for service' as a Colombian gunboat. (Received November 25, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, 24th November. Disclosures in connection with the Johannesburg conspiracy show that the men arrested had been intriguing and communicating with the enemy. • Documents giving details of the organisation, have been seized. • MORE TROOPS WANTED. AN OFFER FROM CANADA • ACCEPTED. (Received November 25, 9.3 a.m.)' LONDON, 24th November. Great Britain has accepted Canada's offer of an additional six hundred .mounted infantry for South Africa. (Received November 25, 9.21 a.m.) LONDON, 24th November. The Statist newspaper heads an appeal for volunteer corp3 to serve in South Africa with a subscription, of a thousand guineas. (Received November 25, 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Despite Mr. Barton's announcement that no more contingents will be sent to South Africa, several State Commandants have been unofficially endeavouring' to obtain reconsideration of the matter. The South Australian Commandant suggests that a thousand men be offered on behalf of the Commonwealth. The feeling of the Commonwealth authorities is against sending any more , troops. CAPTURES OF BOERS. (Received November 25, 9.10 a.m.) ,' LONDON, 24th November. Seven Boers, including I'ield-Gornet S. Botha, have been captured at Amsterdam, in the Eastern Transvaal. Forty more of Ackerman's commando have been captured. SENTENCES OF BANISHMENT. TREACHEROUS SURRENDERERS. (Received November 25, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 24th November. Among those sentenced to banishment are twelve field cornets. Werner, a surrenderer, has been executed at Johannesburg for recommending surrenderees to rejoin their commandos.' Meyer, another surrenderer, for a somewhat similar offence, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. A CORPS OF. EX-BURGHERS. (Received November 25, • 9.21 a.m.) LONDON, 24th November. Two British colonial officers* accompany the ex-burgher corps which is fighting on the British side, one as intermediary between the burgher in com- I mand and the commanders of British col- j umns, the other as quartermaster. Commandants Briel (formerly General ShalkBurger's adjutant) and Miller, of Pretoria, are forming the corps. THE MILITARY SITUATION. (Received November 2^5, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, 24th November. Reuter's "correspondent at the seat of war, in an exhaustive review of the sfttiation, states that solid progress is being made in restricting the enemy's area of occupation by an extension of the blockhouse system. The Morning Post describes the military farms in South Africa which are being worked at a profit. The area being ou^vated as 5000 acres. DR. KRAUSE IN HOLLOWAY GAOL. SPEECH BY THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. • (Received November»2s, 9.21 a.m.) LONDON, 24th November. Dr. Krause, formerly Public Prosecutor' of the Transvaal, who is in custody on a charge of treason, is still in Holloway Gaol, having failed to find bail. Major-General Baden-Powell remains in England over Christmas. The/ Duke of Devonshire, Lord President of the Council, speaking at Eastbourne, replying to a suggestion made by the Radicals, said that any parleying w : th the Boers would only prolong the war. The British Government must bo the judges of the right moment when to .grant the new States self-government. (Received November 25, 9.27 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Large consignments of Christmas pre,sents are being sent to Victorians serving in South Africa.