THE SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10522, 19 December 1901, Page 2

THE SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE.

Lord Kitchener's Weekly Report.

Kruitzingep Captured.

Other Important Seizures.

Protests at the Cape against' ' Bannerman's Views. Press Association— Telegraph— Copyright Received Decemtier 18, 10.54 a.m.- ' L§ND6lf, DecemoSr \&: The following is '.Lord Kitchener's weekly report: — Boers killed 31. • Wounded ." '. 7 Prisoners .-. .'" 372 Surrendered 48 Rifles fcaplured ....:...'.... 366 Rounds of j ammiinitjon... 17,550 He adds that satisfactory progress is being- made, and' the troops are in excellent spirits. Kruitzing^r, in attempting to cross the , block-house -line, near < Hanover fitfad,.wdi ievetel^ and captured, with iwo adjutants: A number of others were seriously wounded. • -Major Daman, in chasing 350 Boers, captured 15 at Bhenoster River, also the trek oxen and all the waggons and suppliekl * t _ 7 .',-.; Spence captured 15 df Englebrecht's Boers in the Ermelo district. Major Gough was severely wounded. Meetings of 'the Vigilance Committee at Capetown adopted a resolution' protesting against Sir Henry CampbellBannerman's suggestion of the removal by Mr Chamberlain of Lord Milner. The resolution further declared that the, loyalists' retention of office the best security' for a permanent, just, and' honourable settlement, the whole 'tone of Sir Henry ' Campbell-Banner-man's. speech' being regarded as pernicious and 'prejudicial to Imperial in-/ terests. Sir, Gordon Sprigg, who presided, said the outlook " was never brighter."