THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 December 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

[I'EB PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] Loitdon. December 9. The recently formed King's Colonials are sub divided into squadrons representing British Asia, America, Africa, and Australasia,

Miss has commenced an action against Lord Kitchener, Lord Milner and the military authorities on the grounds of. false imprisonment and assault.

Trooper John Dellars (7th New Zealand Contingent.) was slightly wounded at Standorton.

An armoured train repulsed 400 Boers trying to cross the railway at Platrans. Increasing numbers of the better class of burghers are anxious to fight for the British. They declare that the Irreconcilables are ignorant marauders. Nine of Reever's commando were captured at South Wepener. There are no British troops north of Delagoa Bay line, where the country is exceptionally fertile. Supplies are plentiful and the Boers are reaping and hid iug their crops. lOOOare concentrated at Rustenburg and Zeerust under Kemp, and a similar number is south of Heilbron with De Wet.

The Cape Boers are north-east of Calvinia, another in the Clanwilliam district, and a third north of Ceres. ■Commandos from the high veldt at Ermelo are constantly trying to break through to the north. Thirty, including probably the itinerant Boer Government, escaped on Thursday under the cover of a big demonstration. The blockhouses, which were a mile apart, are powerless to wholly stop the enemy escaping. The Times urges that blockhouses should be built every 600 yards and be connected by wire entanglements. The Times says that greater exertions are required to finish the war this year, and advises that an should be made to the city of London tb send more Imperial volunteers, and the acceptance of all colonial offers of troops.