THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 November 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

Tha Pro-Boer Movement in Germany. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.]

London, November 22. The Boers are drifting to the western yurt of Cape Colony, where there are no railways. Colonel Orpen’s column at Standerton captured 2,000 cattle, 11,000 sheep and some prisoners. Brisbane, November 22. Pome time ago the Premier represented to Lord Kitchener that the meat companies of Queensland were able t ) supply the Army in South Africa at price under those which the Imperial Government were then paying. A reply was received from the War authorities ashing to advertise in the Australian pipers calling for tenders for the supply of meat for South Africa for 12 months. Tenders close on January 12th next. One hundred railway pioneers at ihc Vaal River, near Yilliersdorp, in re nelling an attack, captured Commandant ' London, November 22. Mr Chamberlain, in replying to Sassc, the London correspondent of the A ossiehe Zeitung, says that there was no that the severities cited excelled just and necessary _ measures. What was right and proper in another nation’s past cannot be barbarous or inhuman in Br.tain’s. S issc, in an interview, said that Dr LcyaL’ intervention was the real cause of the agitation. Many German newspapers arc starving, and glad to accept pecuniary assistance to respond to the buyers Berlin, November 22. The North German Gazette, in commenting on the demonstrations, says that they arc a justifiable resentment against the inconsiderate offensive expressions of a single Minister and ought not to extend to the British Government or poop e. Mr. Chamberlain’s explanation mim-xni-os the speech which rekindled Anglophobia. Nobody would deny the general truth advanced as an apolcgy for the severities which accompany all wars. The official action against Chamberlain s unofficial expressions are not necessary. The high reputation of the German army for discipline, valor and humanity was beyond the reach of false and misplaced comparisons. _