The Transvaal WAR.

Evening Star, Issue 11677, 8 February 1902, Page 6

The Transvaal WAR.

THE EMPIRE’S LOSS. SNARLING DELEGATES. SEVENTY EUROPEAN PATRIOTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. . LONDON, February 7. The total British losses in the war to the end of January, including deaths by disease, were 965 officers and 24,240 men. PROTESTATION AND RECRIMINATION. LONDON, February 7. The Kruger clique are incensed at Dr Kuyper's fruitless intervention. Lord Salisbury’s speech has convinced Germany that Britain does not intend lo abate any of her demands in South Africa. Mr Balfour states that Lord Kitchener has been asked to communicate Dr Kuyper’s and Lord Lansdowne’s Notes to the Boer leaders. BERLIN, February 7. The ‘National Zeitung’ says that Tobias Smnts’s letter shows that the so-called barbarities were sometimes regarded by the Boers as military necessities, and condemns characterising British soldiers as murderers and farm-burners. Smuts confirms the allegation that the British were forced to establish concentration camps. TRUE PATRIOTS WK, Etc. LONDON, February 7. Seventy Europeans, carrying a heliograph and going by way of Zululand, recently joined General Botha. General Rawiinson’s Mounted Corps captured thirty of Botha’s commando. THE EIGHTH CONTINGENT. THE FIRST SECTION LEAVE. SYDNEY, February 7. Tbe Surrey has sailed for Capo Town. Major Bartlett says that tire arrangements aboard for men and horses are the best he has ever seen. BURGHER SCOUTS DO GOOD WORK. A SMART CAPTURE. CRONJE’S PROTEST TO DE LA REY. LONDON, February 7. (Received February 8, at 9.6 a.m.) The National Burgher Scouts at Middelbnrg captured an additional twenty men, including Cornet Gows. The capture of Commandant Albert’s 131 men was due to a night march, the British pom-pom and rifle fire stampeding the Boer horses. The commando were surprised, and scarcely offered any resistance. Andres Cronje protests against the prolongation of the war, and has announced the formation of a burgher corps. He is annoyed at De la Rey, who replied curtly to his message. BROOD MARES FOR REMOUNTS. [Special to the Stab.] WELLINGTON, February 8. The ‘Times’ says that there is a strong feeling in the country districts that a stop should be put to the export of brood mares for remount purposes, and it is felt that the time has arrived when an instruction should be issued forbidding the purchase of mares by the officers whose duty it is to make purchases. It is pointed out that lil is quite useless for the Government to expend large sums of money in importing stallions into the colony for breeding cavalry horses if we allow the pick of the brood stock to be sent away. This is a matter which ought to Oe at once brought under the notice of the Premier, whose practical mind will no doubt grasp the importance of the point raised. THE SURREY’S CONTINGENT. WELLINGTON, February 8. A cable message received by Banna tyne and Co states that the Surrey left- Sydney for Durbin via Albany at ten o’clock last night. At a meeting of the old boys of the Kensington School, held last night, it was decided to send a letter of condolence to Mr and Mrs W. J. Moore, and to take steps to perpetuate the memory of thenlate son Sergeant L. E. Moore, who died at Wakkerstronm, South Africa, of enteric fever. A committee was appointed _to further tho object in view, and a meeting of all ex-pupils is convened. The war still goes on, but the end is in sight. It might have ended long ago but for pro-Boers, whose disloyal speeches have given false bojies to the enemy. To the pro-Boer must be laid the blood and misery of many. The war is the most righteous ever w.iged by any nation. . . . The Germans in Germany believe the vile aspersions against us because British proBoers make some of them. We are overangry against the wrong persons. The root of all the trouble lies with the traitorous, viperous brood who, under the cloak of British permission of free speech, attack the conduct of the Boer War, and so give a sanction lo all the lies manufactured by Loyds and Co. Let the Press cease to publish, print, or otherwise circulate any of tho pro-Boer statements, and Continental opinion will rapidly change, because it will no longer be fed.—New Zealand ‘ Guardian.’