BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 24, 21 October 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

YEOMANRY DEBIBTJRB. FEB PBISS ABSOCUTIOT. Lokdojt, October 18. Fifty out of 200 Imperial Yeomanry who re-enlisted for South Africa » sorted from Shornelifife owiDf to-di*> oontent at the arrears of pay. Confusion is caused through tin paysbeett being in South Afriea, Beoelvad 90,4.6Sjun* Lohdoh, OotobsrlS. ' The desortions from the Imperial i Yeomanry at Bhoraolifle are crffcislly denied. The War Offioe explains that many of the Yeomanry's arrears cf pay are oue to theabsenoe of proof of InN* tifioation. Arrangements are oceaplated for the prompt settlement cf claims. 1 —— COMMANDOS OK TBI MOV* ' BOKR HBPRIBAL6. A HEAVY DBATH ROLL, Beoeived 90,4.8S p.m Losdojt, Ootobar 19. Small bodies of Botha's foree have ; returned to the vicinity of Inhlasantae I Mountain and Tabankato. Dauohauser's oommondo, numbering ' 70, hat reached Bahanango. >, I Mariti and Theron hate burned ' many loyalists' farm*, in retaliatioa for executions of Boers, and threaten mora cruel reprisals. Private William Matthews, of the Bix'h New Zealand Contingent, has been drowned at Oaledon Binr. Lieuteaant E. Grant, of the Seventh New Zealand Mounted*, is oonvaleeoen*, and has resumed duty. There were 109,418 whites in the concentration oamps daring September, including 54,326 ehildrM. Daring tbe month 2411 died, « 1964 ohildran.