THE WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7390, 17 February 1902, Page 2

THE WAR.

THE GREAT " DRIVE."

THE CONTINENTAL CALUMNIES.

Received February 16, 4.45 p.m.

London, February 15. The Standard's correspondent states that before the drive reached Heilbron 1400 crept back. De Wet is tryiDg to rejoin them in the Reitz distriot.

The following deaths are reported :— Seventh New Zealanders : Privates Albert Davidson and Hugh C. Gillies, at Charlestown.

Eighty leading German residents at Capetown have forwarded to Sir James Gordon Sprigg, (Jape Premier, a resolution condemning the calumnies, especially in reference to the revolting treatment of women and children, which were absolutely unfounded. The municipality of Johannesburg has passed a similar resolution, Epler, late Austrian Consul, warmly endorsing it. In the House of Commons, the Right Hon. W. St. John Bodrick, Secretary of State for War, stated that Mrs De Wet, who is in the camp at Natal, was at liberty to leave South Africa, but not to enter Cape Colony. The statement was received with cheers.

THE SURREY AT ALBANY.

Wellington, February 16. The Premier yesterday received the following cablegram from Colonel Davios: "Arrived ac Albany this morning, all well. One horse died."

ANOTHER CAPTURE.

Received February 17, 9.37 a.m.

London, February 16. General Eekewich's Mounted Infantry surprised a laager at Koffyfontein, and captured ten Boers, including Lieut. Barnard commanding Commandant Kemp's bodyguard.

STATEMENT B-Y BOER PRISONERS.

Prisoners stated that De la Rey has issued orders to avoid large bodies of British ; also that ammunition in the Boers' ranks was scarce.