THE SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10497, 19 November 1901, Page 2

THE SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE.

64 British Released.

Smart Action at Klip River

Foreigners' View of the

Situation.

More Mounted Troops

Wanted.

21st Lancers Ordered to the

Cape.

Press Association—-Telegraph—Copyright

Received November 19, 1.16 a.m,

LONDON, November 18. Sixty-four British captured have been released at Brakespruit.

Three parties of the enemy attacked Waldens and Scott's at K*ip River. A sharp rear-guard action ensued. One Britisher was killed, seven were wounded and four captured.- Three Boers were killed and 17 wounded.

A party of Pluiner's Quecnslanders at Slingepies captured a party of_ Boers anu two armed nativos.

Tho Crown Reef mine, Durban, and tho Roodespoort mine are starting with 50 stampers each.

>Tho Timej' Vienna correspondent states that unprejudied foreigners who Save returned from South Africa attribute the duration of the war to insufficient mounted troops. Twenty percent, are engaged in army attendance duties. Tho enemy's strength in September was 12,000, .with an equal number in re-serve-in mountain fastnesses. The Boer interest was not to move large bodies. He adds that tho Boers ought permanently to be excluded from tho gold mine territory; they 'would bo powerless if deprived of gold. '

Tho 21st Lancers have been ordered to tho Cape.