BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 203, 20 October 1900, Page 3

BOER WAR.

THE CLEARING OUT PROCESS. 8088 COMMANDANT MOVING AGAINtiT LYDENBURG. (Received 19, 0.11 a.m.) London October 18. General Clements has cleared the enemy from the Magliesberg Range, capturing 500 cattle. Private Avard, of the New South Wales Lancers, has died of a wound. Commandant - General Botha is moving against Lydenburg, which is strongly held and filled with supplies. The War Office has notified that the order in which troops return from South Africa depends on military exigencies, based upon thj proportion of the various arms required to restore tranquility. Commandant P. Botha, brother of the Boer Commandant-General, has surrendered at. Volksrust. i

KINDRED SPIRITS. (Received 19, 9.31 a.m.) London, October 18. Mr. Michael Davitt and the Nationalists have prepared an address to Mr. Kruger. It expressed sympathy with the heroic stand for liberty made by the Boars, and goes on:—" We humble ourselves with shame through si many Irish being in the ranks of the Boer 1 oppressors, being unable to withdraw. We followed the contest with hopss of your triumph, depressed with anguish upon your reverses by a horde of mercenaries in the pay of coveters of land and gold and haters of independence.

LEYDS BOOMING KRUGER. A TOUR OF BUROPK AND AMERICA TO BE MADB. KRUGER LANDS AT MARSEILLES. AN IRIBH NEWSPAPER'S PROPOSAL. Received 19, 5.25 p.m. London, October 18. Lsdys is booming Kruger, and preparing to make a .'circular tour to meet; the Cabinets in Europe and America. Kruger lands at Marseilles. The Irish Independent suggests thit the freedom of the city of Dublin be conferred on Kruger.

GENERAL BULLBR SPEAKS OUT.

Received 20, 0.49 a.m. London, October 19. General Buller, in accepting the sword of honour presented by the residents of Pietermaritzburg, referred to the- -unparalelled difficulties which marked the beginning of the campaign. He slated 'he refused Sir Evelyn Wood's..genejpus offer to serve under him because <he regarded the relief of Lidysmith a*a forlorn hope, which it would have been cßwardly to let Sir E, Wooi share,''' He'.admitted he rightly lost the>chief.command after the battle of Oolenso. No soldier Q had previously undergone such a tremendous strain, facing fire day after day,

MISCKLLAHBOUS. .-. Received 19, 11 p.m. London, October 19. Lord Roberts bas authorised free exportations from the Transvaal anl Orange-Co'ony of -exports, excepting bar gold" and' Inunit'Ons of war. Major Francis, New Zealand Rough Riders, and .Captain MacHatties, New South Wales .Bushmen, are invalided to England, W£R SCHOLARS.

Wellington, October 19,

There will ba 140,000 war commemoration medals struck by the Go-1 vernment for distribution among school.-childien at a cost of £12,500. The deoiga has not- yet been definitely decided'upon; buftbere is little doubt as to the sesigifthat will meet with official acceptation.,.. It will be acopper bronze medal of the size of a florin, bearing on the reverse a representation of a mounted trooper in khaki galloping over the veldt, the back ground being a kopje, while above will be the inscription "presented to ohildren attending New Zealand State Schools." On the obverse will be the words "In commemoration of the war in South Africa, 1899-1900, in which 1788 men from New Zealand took pirt." The medals will be struck in the olony. No provision has yet been made for a fastening attachment, and if it. is decided to have one, the present estimated cost will be trebled if not quadrupled,