THE WAR.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222037, 16 January 1900, Page 2

THE WAR.

MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL FRENCH.

HE DEFEATS THE ENEMY.

Capetown, January 14. General French is now strongly encamped on the enemy’s eastern flank. The enemy endeavoured to oust British from their position, but the attempt was vigorously resisted, and proved unsuccessful. " The manner in which the Suffolks met with the disaster near Colesburg - has convinced the colonial troops mounted irregulars ought to be utilised to cope with the Boer forces in hillycountry. Infantry ought to be neflP stricted to fighting on the plains. Mr Hoffmann, a member of the Cfepa Legislative Assembly for De Aar, will probably be court-martialled for acting on the medical staff of the Boer army. London, January 14. The Spectator urges doubling tho shifts of men employed at every arsenal and dockyard, and also placing contracts for warlike stores at home and abroad. It advocates strengthening the reserves of the engineers and officers and men of thanavy. It urges theso precautions as necessary'with a view to averting the pressure of Europoan intervention in the Transvaal a few months hence. The offer of Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner of Canada, to equip and maintain ht the cost of a million dollars, 400 north - western Canadian rough riders for aotive service, -has been accepted by the Imperial authorities.