THE BOER WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11534, 20 November 1900, Page 5

THE BOER WAR.

. LORD KITCHENER'S METHODS. DEPORTING NATAL BURGHERS. A PAID BOER COMMANDO. ! BOTHA PROCLAIMS A NEW REPUBLIC. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. London, November 19. It is reported at Durban that Lord Kitchener .will deport the bulk of civilian burghers as they hamper British operations. , General Abel Erasmus, with 2000 men, and 12,000 cattle, and a thousand waggons, is at ant's River, in the Middelburg district. He is in possession of £150,000, and is paying burghers 5s a day. Botha has formed a Republic at Roosenkal, westward of Lydenburg. De la Key commands a thousand Boers between Vryburg and the Fourteen Streams. AWAITING KRUGER'S ARRIVAL. Paris, November 19. . Dr. Leyds and Mr. Michael Davitt are at Marseilles awaiting Kruger's arrival. The Mayor of Toulon has announced officially that he is joining in the welcome to Kruger at Marseilles. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW COLONIES. London, November 19. Permission to send private messages to the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony has been granted, with certain limitations. BOER ATTACK AT VRYHEID. London, November 18. A strong Boer force attacked a British convoy at Vryheid, and was badly repulsed. KLERKSDORP OCCUPIED. London, November 18. Generals Barton and Douglas, who are clearing the South-western Transvaal, have occupied Klerksdorp. General Douglas captured a large quantity of cattle, sheep, and supplies. Klerksdorp has, or had, a population of about 6000. It is 118 miles by rail from Johannesburg', and contains several public buildings and churches. Diamonds and coal have been found in considerable quantities in its vicinity. THE COMMAND AT BLOEMFONTEIN. London, November 18. General Hunter has relieved General Kelly-Kenny in command at Bloemfontein, General Hunter is 44 years of age, and a Scotsman. Before the present war he saw a good deal of service in the Soudan,, and was present at the battle of Khartoum. In that campaign he was known as the Sirdar's fighting general. FLYING THE BOER FLAGS PROHIBITED. London, November 18. The Portuguese have prohibited the hoisting of the Transvaal and' Orange flags at Delagoa. BOERS TREKKING SOUTH.London, November 18. The northern Boer commandos in the Transvaal are trekking south in the direction of Errnelo, on the high veldt. They have a quantity of cattle with them.

AMERICAN MERCENARIES. New York, November 18. The members of the American ambulances in South Africa have returned to New York. They admit that except the nurses and doctors they fought for the Boers throughout the campaign. SIR ALFRED MILNER. Capetown, November 18. The Mayor of Capetown, in thanking the Australian troops for their aid in the war, urged them to represent the necessity for Sir Alfred Milner staying to complete the settlement of the South African question. PREACHING SEDITION. Capetown, November 18. There is considerable indignation here at the conduct of Boei prisoners on parole preaching sedition in Cape Colony villages where they are residing. The Boer prisoners are only following the example or some of the Dutch clergy in Capetown whose seditious and outrageous utterances are permitted by the authorities to pass without notice. One of them, the Rev. Mr. Steytler, a loading minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, declared recently that he was only loyal because he had to be, and he denounced the British as guilty of disgraceful acts which could only have been expected from barbarous Chinese or Turks. RETURN OF NEW ZEALANDERS. [BY TELEGRAPH. ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Monday. The Premier has received an intimation that Colonel Somerville, Lieutenant Collins, and some troopers, who arrived at Melbourne on Saturday, will leave for Sydney on Tuesday, en route for New Zealand. COMMISSION FOR AN AUCKLANDER. An Imperial commission as lieutenant in the Prince of Wales' Leinster Regiment (the lQOth), the Royal Canadians, has been given, through Lord Roberts' recommendation, to Trooper E. H. Wildeblood, of Roberts' Horse., South African Field Force. Mr. Wildeblood left Auckland for Capetown in November of last year. The date of the commission as given in the Army and Navy Gazette is September 18.

BOER BARBARITY. ' . EXPANDING BULLETS. . GHASTLY WOUNDS INFLICTED. Pretoria, October 4. General Pole-Carew has arrived with the rest of the Guards, including the detachment of Coldstreams derailed near Pan jail? way station. Every wound was caused by expanding bullets. They were most ghastly wounds. In one case the head of a soldier was simply smashed to a pulp ; another

had a larrt portion of nil bAck carried awayn and another had his knee-joint J smashed to atoms. v Both the driver and stoker j,wer«"l; : i1 wounded. • -. — There is a feeling of great resentment '; throughout the army against the cruel tMe ; of expanding bullets during the war. It is f to be hoped - that all prisoners taken found ■•;■;"- itt the possession of such bullets will be promptly shot. . > - { ; ■ : COCOA AND PATRIOTISM, " > It has 'become known that Messrs. Cadbury, cocoa manufacturers, of Birmingham, recently declined to send an estimate to the' War Office for a contract for 30 tons of cocoa for the troops In South Africa; Mr. George Cadbury, interviewed' on the subject, confirmed the statement; and he'■ added that their action had been dictated purely by their religious motives as members of the Society of Friends, who did not countenance war. They felt they could not supply anything which assisted towards the carrying on m operations. For the tome reason they could not organise collections at their works on behalf of any war relief fund, though they had- never brought pressure to bear on their work people to abstain from contributing. With reference to the Queen's chocolate, Mr.. Cadbury said they certainly took that order, but the" circumstances were peculiar, in that their instructions emanated from the Queen, whose will and Convenience they, as loyal subjects, felt bound to respect, while disapproving of the war. Mr. Cadbury said he was doing something for the sufferers, and he hoped to do something for the Boers as well When the time comes. .'