GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 192, 27 August 1901, Page 4

GENERAL ITEMS.

if Th« French rerdars of yellow jonr-l g • nail mam ready to believe the wildest' I- rtoras about to British troops > W in Soath Africa. Not long Ago the « Courier ie Cannes, which will rea'ly |, bave to change its name to Couries des * Canards, pnblished a rrpirt frem it-. f~ Johannesburg corrp'prnderit, stating i that General French hid been caotared I hy the Boers and re'eat doa condition that he would not pg-in bear arms :. : . against them. An Englishman cou'd K not resist "pn!'ing thp Courier's'ee," j and sent the editor the fo'lowiug letter j *.- To the writer's sorprise, it was poo-' liahed under the heading of •' A Ben- \ aaticnal Revelation" from a " Distinct gushed Foreincer," which "cannot fail "■, to produce a certai eensatioo." The letter run thus : " Your Johannesburg correspondent" states that Gereral Trench's departure is dae to the fact that, having been captured by the : Boere, he has been released on the con- . dition of no longer serving against them. Bat oar correspondent appears to ignore the fact that Lr,rd Roberts, Sir Redwra Boiler, Sir George White, General Ke'ly-Keany, Of nf rai B»denPowell, Sir Aifred Milner, 0010-.e: "Ward, Sir Archibald Hunter, and General lan Hamilton are all in the same category. Al', without excption, have be<?n capture} by the Boers, and generously released 03 the conditio a cf DO longer be 1 ring area.: against the Booth African Republic. The English ;; Government naturally ke?ps ail tnt."