BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 272, 18 November 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

GENERAL IT Cite, pjsb pans association. Lovdoh, November 15V The Daily Telegraph'b correspondentdescribes the use by the Boer* of ex*panding bullet* in recent battles and callous robbing of the dying and deed* Sandberg, General Botha's aide-de-camp, ig lecturing ia Franee. He declares the Boers will inaiet on tbeir indepeodeaoe and the possession «f Cspe Colony, owing to British oraeUp in the Transvaal and Oraoge Colony. Ilarl borne, ypeaking at Leads, said the Boers were absolutely irreeoooilable. If responsible Government were granted thepi immediately the Ml of it, like the rifle, would .be tuned against us. There must be an interim period for reconstruction on the baai* of just, free, and firm government.. Time would do the rest. *

Great Britain hu (ranted Belgium £4OOO to settl* the claim* of Belgian* deported from South Africa. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Received It, 4.49 pM. Lcwtdos, November 15. Lightning killed four and iojured two soldiers at Vryheid. ! MENTIONED IN DESPATCH®?, i __ ORGANISED INTIMIDATION PREVENTS SURRENDER*. Received 17,4.40 p.m. A London, November 17. ■ Lord Kitchener mentions for good services Lieutenant Hecklar, BergsantMajor Galloway and Corporal Vorcooof the Seventh New Zealand Mounted! for rescuing dismounted am ufidw heavy fire at Witkoop; also a number of Australians for smart work and gallantry. Lord Kitchener's despatches for July and August show he is oonfidest of gradually crippling the enemy.' H* states that organised intimidation prevents the surrender of many who otherwise are eager to do eo, MORE NSW SOOTH WALBS BTOHMEN WANTED. Received 17,4.40 p.m. Stdnet, November 19. Major Hon. Rupert Oarridgton, commanding the third New Sooth Wales Bushmen in Sonth Africa, has ctbled to the Government that men are urgently required for his regiment, and asking if it can induos pastoralists to raise 150 bushmen for six months service, five shillings a day being paid by the Imperial Government, equip* ment found, and return passage allowed. AUSTRALIAN NURSE'S GOOD WOBK. DOUBTFUL BRITISH AIDS. BOERS REPULSED AT HKILBRON, YEOMANRY PATROL SURROUNDED. Received 17,4.40 p.m. London, November 16. Dootors and inspectors eulogise the work of nursing sister MeOlay, mi Australian, the active and oajiftbb matron of Middleburg camp. Cape advioes indicate the danger of enlisting doubtful Dutchmen. Recently 180 of these, under a British 1 officer, surrendered to Smuts, practioally without opposition, though they occupied a strong position. Lord Kitohener has despatched 1 specially mobile columns, with a free 1 hand to operate in different districts. 1 Received 17,4.57 p.m. London, November 16. Lord Kitchener reports that Kit> chener's Fighting Scout*, forming 1 Co'onel Byng's rear-guard, near Riel--1 bron, after two hours fighting, decisively repelled 400 Boer*, believed to bl under De Wet. Eight Boers were killed. Four British were kill.d and nine wounded. Three hundred Boers at Braks--1 pruit, Magliberg district, surrounded a 1 Yeomanry patrol, killing six, wounding 1 16, and capturing others. They afterwards released several. Reinforot--1 ments arrived and drove the enemy off. OAPTURKS OF REBELS. BOERS SHOOTING NATIVES. Received 17,4.57 p.m. London, Novemb>r 16. Herder's correspondent reports that that 24 Boers were cap'ured at Waterberg. Oolonel Flumer made a number cf captures in south-eastern Trausvail. Major Jack Bt-resford, of the Constabulary, attacked Dutoit's laagir at Doomhoek, oapturing 13. The Tinm Middleburg otrreeponpoodent reports that Fouche's lieutenant, Theron (sob of T. P. r heron, Pieudent of the Afrikander Bond), captured and shot two natives, southeast; of Burgheradorp, and afterwards boabted of the deed. THE TROUBLES IN THE CONOENTiU. TION CAMPS. Reoeived 18,1.0 a.m London, Novum bor 17. A Blua Bojk has been issued, dealing with tho concentratjoa (amps. It shows thai the < arneit effort* of the authorities ha?e been largely b tfflidby the inconceivable igaoranoe, owtintcy, filthiness, fatalism, and lazino « of the inmates.

Wellington, November 17. The Premier was asked on Saturday if he had offered an Eighth Contingent -to the War Office as hinted at in Australian cable news. Mr. Seddon denied that Mr. Deakin was correct in suggesting that New Zealand was the •colony referred to in the recent speech of the Secretary of State for War, and 1» hazarded an opinion that it was CwwJ* that tad made the offer.