THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 December 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

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London, December 20. When Badehorst was captured Commandant Bezer narrowly escaped. Fourteen farmers in the Oudtshoorn district were imprisoned and fined for not reporting the enemy. Casualties of Victorians :—Private Whelan died of his wounds ; FarrierSergeant Wallace was severely wounded at Grootbix. Queenslanders : TroopeRoberts and Lance-Corporal Murphy died of enteric. New South Welshmen ; Private Oldham was killed at Witkraus ; Private Pitt died of enteric.

The Johannesburg exchange is opened. It caused a favorable effect on the Paris Bourse.

Colonel Steel’s constabulary at Magliesberg captured 31 Boers. General Methuen at Allonby captured 32 Boers.

Kruger’s obstinacy is increasing daily. Mr Asquith, speaking at Rilaton, said that if Lord Eosebery’s speech has not transformed, it has at any rate cleared and defined the situation. The union of all parts of the Empire has been consecrated by imperishable memories and demand an honorary and durable peace. Meanwhile the prosecution of operations and unflagging valour and alertness must bo maintained. He eulogised Lord Kitchener as a great, patient general. The ‘War Office has ordered the embodiment of six battalions of militia and the enlistment of 2000 Yeomanry; accepting married men,, with a prospect of settling in South Africa.