BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 126, 22 June 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

♦ GENERAL BULLER'3 OKITICISM. DE WET AND STEYN PAIL TO CROSS THE RAILWAY. LORD ROBERTS' CLEMENCY. CAPTURES LV THE NORTH EAST. FEB PBESB ASSOCIATION, Received 21,8.55 a.m. London, June 20. Oeceral Sir Redvers Bullur decl-iree that the campaign showed the want of accuracy of British rifle fire atshoit ranges, thus allowing the foe to ecipe with insufficient' pun'>hment after positions had been gra:.to '. Mr Balfou' - , addressing a meeting of Conservative ag'nt; at Holborn Re said Sir H. Campbflil-B-n----nerman's a?s- ttion that the war was onductel barbarously was a ecandalcus and sho.king statement, since m vrahad ev»r been conducted with pqual humanity. Commandant De Wet and MrSteyn recently made unsuccpssful attempts to ciose the railway line betwetn S'and orton and Heidelberg. Earl R barta has pardoned severs! volurteere sentercd to penal servitude for sleeping at their ppsta. Commandant Barraud Vender had arranged with his crmmando of 100 t( surrender, but) one of his men informed General Badenham, who imprisoned Venter, who, with his two sons, however, i scaped to tha British lines al Me'ino. Colenbrander's scouts are clearing the no.th-e"s l of the Transveal. Many prisoner*, surrender r«, and waegon" have been taken. The Boors are try ing 1o break through the cordons and join force. EFFECT OF PRO BOER BY.VPATHY. FURTHER POLITICAL SPEECHES. Received 21, 11.40 a.m. London, June 19. The Queen's Hall nveting has revived the continental chmmir ogunst England. The French have urged b boycott of British goods until the independence af the South African Republics is conceded. Receivsd2l.ll.s7 p.m. London, June 21. In an address to tho Essex Libers' Federation, Mr Asqu'th declared th' South Af riran war must, ba humanely conducted, and tint there was no man in the Empire more perorated wi'h the spirit of humanity than Lord Milner. It was impossible to rento'e the status of tho Republics, but he hoped to see a free federated dominion Mr. Austen Chamberlain, speaking st a Cors rvative luncheon in London, declared that tho meanest rcribblers in the meanest journal, never made a more infamous or unfounded charge than that made by Sir H, Bannerman, when alleging tin barbarity of Lard Kitchener or the army. LIBERAL IMPERIALISTS VIEWS. (Received 21, 11.52 p.m.) London, June 21. Lord Chirks Beresford, in a letter to a friend, confessed ho was extremely anxious when he considered the want jof strength and proper war crgrnisajtkm of the British (lee*; in the Madi- • te rant an. Mr Asquith, »ddressir,g th* Essex! I LibTsl Ft'dovi'i'in, piote-tei ap.rnst ' Li'eral In:peri>Jists! e : ri£ rienf uneod as (fchi.-m-it.ics 'IVy neither r -periled nor ;recanted. Their vow wim that the !war was forced upon Great Brita'n • without adequate reason, and entirely against our will. There wiu- no au'hori'y in the L'fceral ponti ficiil or f'therwis 3 , by which they we-e empowered to excommunicate the ! holders r-f that view. Tlia resolution j passed at Queen's EMI inculcating un|Condilion c ;l surrender to tho was not »n authoritative exposition of ' Liberal opinion. RTCFUUEE3 CAMPS. Received 22, 0 s'l am. London, June 21. The Boer refugees doips in Orange Colony, besides nine for oativep, require a weekly importa'ion of 88t-ons of food | stuffs. The average mortality in these 'camps is 116 per thousand per annum, I largely the result of the Boers disregard] .of sanitation, and the womens' neglect j of children.