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Southland Times, Issue 14813, 14 December 1900, Page 2

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DE WKT RETRKATJ X< 1 NORTHWARD: KNOX FICHTIXC HIM NKAR HELVETIA: A BRITISH FORCE BEHIND THE ENEMY

FIVE MILES OF RAILWAY DESTROYED STORM IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS : SIR A MILNER DENOUNCED (Un-itkd Prkss Association— By Ei.kctric TELKUKAPH— CoPYRKSHT.) London, Dec. 1± Received 13th, 10.34 p.m. j General Knox is engaged in a running fight with De Wet near Helvetia. The enemy is moving towards Reddeuburg, [ where a British force is waiting. Russia has requested Kruger to refrain from visiting St. Petersburg. M. Beaufort, Netherlands Minister, has told Kruger that the initiative of arbitration belongs to the great rowers. j Dec. 12. Received 14th, 12.34 a.m. A commando of 300, with two guns destroyed five miles of railway between AlkmaaV and Nelspruit and communication with Barberton is cut. In the House of Commons denunciations of Sir A. Milner by Sir Robert Reid, member for Dumfries Burghs, and Mr James Bryce (Aberdeen South) provoked a stormy scene. The Hon. St. John Brodrick declared that such speeches were calculated to encourage the Queen's enonm's. Ho complained that Mr Chamberlain's speech had already been distorted in South Africa into a confession of weakness and an admission that Britain was weary of tho war anil ready to concede anything, whereas the speech was in the strictest conformity with the spirit of Lord Roberts' proclamation. Sir M. Hicks- Beach reiterated his hope that a considerable portion of tho cost of the Transvaal war would be borne by the Transvaal. He intended to send Sir David Miller Barbour, a well-known fiuaucial authority, to report on the assets of the Transvaal Government.