BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 9, 24 April 1902, Page 3

BOER WAR.

> VARIOUS ITTOB. LofflXW, April 22. One thousand Royal Engineers are Bailing to relieve men at the front. Mr Brodrick, in the House of Commons, said the Government was Dot prepared to publish Generals Butler's and Warren's explanatory and recriminatory statements regarding the despatches. The death rate in the concentration camps during March was 45 per cent. A thousand Boers in Western Cape Colony surrounded and unsuccessfully attacked Ookivp. British reioforceateßtß arrived and relieved the garrison.

THK PBAOB PROPOSALS. Received 23,10.87 p.m. Lohdok, April 23. Hr Chamberlain, replying to Mr Harms wertb, M.P. for Caithness said he was not iware, drspite inquiries made, that th«»re wbb any law < f the late Transvaal Republic requiring peace delegates to submit proposed terms of peace to the commandos in the field.

AH AUSTRALIAN SWEEPING BTATKMBNTB. Received 23,1P.37 p.m. Lohikh, April 23. Professor Wood, of the Sydney TJcivareity, and preudeftt ef New South rn'i-War League, in an article published in tbe Manchester Guardian, states thnt a very gmat minority of Anstialians are oppved to the war, chiefly coos's'incr af Irish residents, tVe Labour Party, and rouseabou's. He adds that racial unity and a profundity of igno ance are tbe real causes of the war. One of the chief reasons for Australia's support, he alleges, is that tbe colonies cessider their help is a good investment and a good advertisement. A frw volunteers were inspired by a spirit of ■elf sacrifice, but most were actuated by sheer love of adventure and a desire to escape the monotony of bu*h life.

BNGAGBMBNT NEAR FICKSBURG. Keceived 23.10.16 p.m. Lohdon, April 23. Captains Sir P. Fowler, A. T. Blackwood, and three mm were killed, and three officers and sixteen wounded in fin engagement a*; Olivier's farm, near Ficksburg, on tbe 20th itist. Six men are reported missirg.

LORD MILNER AT OAPB TOWN. Keceived 24, 0.26 a.m. Londos, April 23. Lord Mifner bas ieturned to Cape Town. | A FATBIOTIO COUNCIL. j Keceived 24,1.1 a.m. Sydney, April 23. The Rand wick Council's reply to the anti-War League was the adoption of aj resolution that the issuers of the petition against the war in South Africa should be arraigned on a charge of treason and sedition.