THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 November 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] Further Captures and Banishment.

Another Canadian Contingt it Accepted.

Dr Krause in Gaol.

More Volunteers for Africa.

The Johannesburg Conspiracy.

Eeeeived this day at 9.10 am. London, November 21.

Seven Boers including Field Cornet S, Botha, were captured at Amsterdam, Transvaal.

Forty more of Ackerman’s commando have been captured. Amongst those sentenced to banishment are twelve Field- Cornets who were surrenders, and at Johannesburg recommended surrenders to rejoin commandos.

Meyer, a surrender?!’ for a somewhat similar offence was sentenced to penal servitude for life. Great Britain has accepted Canada’s offer of an additional six hundred Mounted Infantry for South Africa.

The Duke of Devonshire speaking at Eastbourne replying to the suggestion made by the Radicals said that any parleying with the Boers prolonged the war. The British Government must be the judges of the right moment when to grant the new states Self-Government. London, Nov 24. Reuter ’correspondent in an exhaustive review of the situation states that solid progress is being made in restricting the enemy’s area of occupation by the extension of blockhouses. The Morniug Post describes the military farms are worked at a profit. The area being cultivated is 5000 acres. Disclosures in connection with the Johannesburg conspiracy show intriguing communications with the enemy. Documents giving details of the organisation were seized. London, Nov 24, Dr Krause is still in Holloway gaol having failed to find bail. Baden-Powell remains in England over Christmas.

The Statist newspaper heads an appeal for a Volunteer Corps to serve in South Africa with a thousand guineas.