SOUTH AFRICA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9305, 19 November 1901, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

DUTCH POLICY AND SYMPATHIES. GERMANY'S REASONABLE STAND. Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright— Unit d Press Association. LONDON, Nov. 18. The Twenty-first Lancers have been ordered to the Cape. Sixty-flour British were captured and released at Brakenspruit. Three parties of the enemy attacked Walken's and Scott's forces at Klip river. A sharp rearguard action resulted. One) British was killed, seven wounded, and four captured. Three Boers were killed and 17 wounded. A party of Colonel Plumer's Queenslanders at Slengepies captured a party of Boers and two armed natives. The Times' Vjenna correspondent states that unprejudiced foreigners who have returned from South Africa, attribute the duration of the war to insufficient mounted troops. Twenty per cent, of the force were engaged m army attendance duties. The enemy's estimated strength m September was 12,000, with an equal number m reserve m the mountain fastneßses. The Boer interest was not to move m large bodies. He adds that the Boers ought permanently to be excluded from the gold territory, and*they would be powerless if deprived of gold. (Received Nov. 19, 9.56 a.m.) THE HAGUE, Nov. 18. Dr Kuyper T -*he Dutch Premier, speaking here, replying to critics, justified a. policy of consistent neutrality added to watchful opportunity for tendering offices m favor of peace. LONDON, Nov. 18. The crew of a Dutch fishing boat, confining the captain m the cabin, pretended they were m distress. A Ramegate smack came to their assistance. The Dutchmen boarded the English boat shouting, "Long live the Boers," and wounded several of the English. They ultimately allowed the smack to proceed to Ostend. . The Standard states that Fidger, a Boer -emissary, lias returned to Holland, being persuaded by persons m an influential position that the Kaisers policy m regard to the Transvaal will remain unchanged. Id the Bavarian Chamber, Baron Von Crailsheim, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said the Boers were admittedly brave, but the German policy could not advise or interfere. Intervention was impossible against the will of one of the parties. The railway m course of construction" from Dundee to Vryheid has been com> pleted beyond DeJagersdrift. Brussels advices state that DeWet has collected 6000 men, including 1550 Afrikanders 1 , and commences a vigorous of-* fensive campaign north of the Orange Colony.