THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 10 December 1901, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

By Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright

London, Dec. 8. General Methuen has captured 1200 cattle and 1*2,000 sheep. Hendrick Albertyn, corporal of a rebel commando, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life at Graafreinet on charges of marauding and incendiarism. The Boer delegates at Brussels have instructed the Berlin and Munich Committees to agitate for Sir Alfred Milner's removal.

Miss Hobhouse's pamphlets are being distributed gratis from Berlin bookstalls. The newspapers offer pro-Boer literaturo as Christmas prizes. Baron von Lyndon, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared in the Second Chamber that Great Britain declined to liberate on parole the staff’ of the Second Dutch lied Cross Ambulance in South Africa. She could not be obliged to re-lea-e them until peace was declared.

The war has cost England eighteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight lives.

There are no British troops north of the Delagoa Bay line, whore the country is exceptionally fertile and supplies plentiful. The Boers are reaping and hiding the crops. A thousand lioers are concentrated at Rustenburg and Zeerust, under lveinp. There is a similar number at South Ilcilbrjn, with l>o Wet. One group of Capo Boers’are north-east of Calvinia, another is in Clan William district, and a third at North Ares. London, Dec. 9. Commandoes from the high veldt at Ermelo are constantly trying to break through north. Thirty, including probably the intinerant Boer Government, escaped on Thursday, under cover of u big demonstration. The block-houses' which are a mile apart, are powerless to wUolly stop the enemy escaping. The Times urges that tho block-houses should be built every six hundred yards, and connected by wire entanglement. The Times says that grontor exertions arc required to finish the war this year. It advises an appeal to the City of London to send more Imperial Volunteers, and tho acceptance of all colonial offers of troops. “ BETTER-CLASS BURGHERS." By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Dec. 9. Trooper John Dollars, of the Seventh New Zealand Contingent, was slightly wounded at Standorton. An armored train repulsed four hundred Boers trying to cross tho railway at Platrams.

Increasing numbers of the “ better-class burghers ” are anxious to fight for tho British. They declare that the irrceonciliables aro ignorant marauders. Niuercevers connuaudo has been captured south of Wepener.