THE TRANSVAAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 11587, 24 October 1901, Page 2

THE TRANSVAAL.

DISPERSAL OF COMMANDOS. SMUGGLING MUNITIONS OF WAR THROUGH PORTUGUESE TERRITORY. LORD KITCHENER'S WEEKLY REPORT. United Press Aosociation—Per Riectrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.24 'a.m., October 23rd. LONDON, October 22. Botha's commandos have been driven, back towards Ermelo, and local commandos, dispersed the moment the British column came in contact with them. An effort by the enemy to break through the cordon south of Calvina was frustrated. The Constabulary posts between the railways stretch from the Wilge river to Greylingstad, showing an extension of civil administration. Numbers of Boers dressed in khaki were captured by one -of Pilcher's patrols at Smithfield. i The death sentence passed l on Botha, one. of Lotters' commanda, has been, commuted to penal servitude for life. _ The Boers are smuggling cannon ancr ammunition through Portuguest territory, Botha declaring that such action is indispensable to the carrying on of the struggle. The Johannesburg correspondent of the "Cologne Gazette" commends the British: civil administration, and considers that the amy has accomplished everything possible, and that no other army could have done better. . locMr H. Copeland, New South Wales Agent-General, presents the sword subscribed for in New South Wales to General Baden-Powell at the Imperial Institute in. November. Mr Chamberlain will preside. Lord Kitchener's weekly report shows' that 25 Boers were killed, 18 wounded, 190 captured, and 50 surrendered; ana that 141 rifles, 6125 rounds of iimmnnition, 106 waggons, 834 horses, and 6540 cattle were taken.

THE CONDUCT OF THE' WAR.

DE WET SHORT OF ARMS. ANIV AMMUNITION.

Received 11.20 p.m.. October 23rd. , LONDON, October 23.

A correspondent at Aberdeene wrote that no Scottish newspaper countenances tlie clamour of the London press regarding "■he .conduct of the war, although Scotland's-' j° ss men ' las ' J3en thrice that of Fne' ,(UJC ' nn< * more l ' !an d °ublo that of Ireland. B ™drick replied warmlyappreciating Scotland s spirit Great Britain's task was a.'duouf, and best met by. patient cheerfulness. The Boers in HolW Mitre that Do Wet does not lack for -"Hen, hut lacks' arms and ammunition.