THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 253, 2 November 1901, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, Oct. 80. Replying to CanonGore’sattacks on the Boer concentration camps and the suggested removal to the sea coast, Canon \Y. J. Knox Little, after visiting South Africa, declares that everything possible is done to properly conduct the camps, to mitigate the hardships, and to avert disease. Removal to the coast is impracticable, and would intensify the evils. Lord Milner has visited the camp at Merebank and satisfied himself as to tho arrangements. A cavalry brigade proceeds to South Africa in the middle of November. Great Britain has compelled tho Boor factory at Lorenzo Marquez to reship to Hamburg i>oo tons of saltpetre ex the German steamer Herzog. Delarey, with 1000 men, on tho 21th attacked Yondouop s rearguard, lie was repulsed, leaving -IS dead and five captured. including Commandant Uccketts, wounded. Hans Joubort, a member of the Volksraad, was killed. Commandant Lcimner was wounded. Sir Herbert Maxwell states that the late Queen Victoria in ISSI told the Cabinet they were all wrong. There should be a convention with the Boers, but fight. London, Xov. J.

Forty Boers surprised ten Georgetown scouts ill Doom river. Seven esca peff. Three, losing their horses, took refuge in ;i house. Finding resistance hopeless, one unarmed, with his hands up, went out. He was killed A Boer spy. in tho uniform of tho Rimingtcm Guiff v, as wrested in a train at Storm! cry. Hawkins’s recent successes arc duo to night- inarches, without baggage. Block-houses have been placed every 200 yards along tho railway of disaffected districts, with Kaffir hounds between.