BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 220, 26 September 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

CABLE NEWS.

(Br EMSCTBIO TBtafIRAPH.—OOPYBIGHT I

GENERAL ITEMB. [fib press association.] London, September 24. A thousand Boer prisoners have left Durban for Bombay. Joubert's nephew and two others escaped at Bermuda into the bosh with the assistance of local sympathisers Bluejackets are searching for them. General French's force numbers 34,000, but it is considered insufficient to expel maraude-s f>om Cape Colony, since 10,000 of tbem are utilised in guarding tbe railways, and 10,000 assisting tbe Town Guards in local defence. The magazine rifles entrusted to the Gape Town Guards have been recalled and replaced with Martinis,there beiDg a suspicion tbat a percentage of Guards are disloyalists, who ate supplying the Boers with arms and ammunition. Owing to disaffection the Cape military authorities favour the general application of martial law, bat tbe Cape Government and Cape Chamber of Commerce oppose it.' Native* report tbat tbe Boers in the vicinity of Utrecht are retiring. Lieutenant Rundle's patrol, comprising a volunteer composite regiment, has driven the Beers back to Ukandi, south of Vryheid. ' MR. KRUGER'S FINANCIAL STRAIT Received 25, 10.56 p.m. Bbussels, September 25, Advices received heie declare that Mr. Kruger's funds are almost exhausted. After paying numorous refugees in the eervice of the so-called Boer Government, and also for lecturrrs touring the Con inent, Mr. Kruger has scarcely enough for himself and the most pressing of the Boer service S 'me prominent Boers in Holland are almost destitute. THE LATEST. Received 16,10.70 a.m. London, September 25. Lord Kitchener reports that British reioforcements have worked into Natal. Tbe raiders in Natal are returning > as 1 : and north. The lineof blockhouses from Potchefstrom meets another at Koppes Station, and goes hence toGatsrand. The Va*il Vil'ey and the enclosed district are clear of the enemy. Tht country westwards of the Bloemfontein railway is clear. The columns cossel eastward, and joined Major-General Knox in the pursuit of the enemy in the Dewetsdorp j district. I Mayenburg and Fouche ara new J Lady Grey. j Colonels Doran and Haig are pur-1 suing Smuts, near Bedford. . Tbe Midlands are quiet. I Scheepers and Theron in tbe south are assiduously evading the columns. | The weekly report shows: —29 Boers I ' killed, 16 wounded, 350 captured, 48

surrendered, 245 rfles, 17,800 rounds ammunition, 55 waggons, 1000 horses, and 5500 cattle taken. Received 26, 0.52 a.m. London, S«ptemb' r 25. A Seuter despatch states tbafi Colonel Thorneyoroft's foice in Southern ; Oiange Colony recaptured a 15pounder j taken on tbe 19th, cap'uring 20 Boers. ,He also retook 10,000 rounds of am- | munition.