BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 273, 19 November 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

AN AUSTRIAN OPINION ON THE WAR. THE BOER STRENGTH. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 19, 1.1 am. London, November 18. Tbe Times Vienna correspondent spates that unprejudiced foreigners returned from Sjuth Africa attribute fhe duration of tbe war to insufficient mounced troops. Twenty per cent were engaged in army attendance duties. The enemy's estimated strength in September was 12,000, with an equal number in reserve in the mountain fastnesses. The 80-r interest was not to move in large bodies. They add that tbe Boers ought to be permanently excluded from the gold-mine territory, as they would be powerless if deprived of gold. A SH4RP BKIRVISH. QUEENSLA.NDKRS AT WORK. MINEi REBUMIVG OPERATIONS. Received 19, 1.16 a.m Loudon, November 18. Sixty-four British were captured and released at Brakspruit. Three parties of the enemy attacked Colonel Wa'den Scott at Kl'p-river, and in a sharp reir-guard action one Britisher was killed, seven wounded, >nd four captured, Three Boers were killed, and 17 wounded. Aparty of Colonel Plumer's Queenslanders, at Slingepies, captured 40 Boers and two armed natives. The Crown Reef Mine and DurbanRordf spoort mines are starting to work fifty stampers each, The 21st,Lancers have been ordered •o the Cfpe.

Wellington, November 18. A cablegram from Cape Town says that L'eutenant Joyce andthrre of the New Zealand Mounted Infantry smiled on 14th November by the Wilcannia for Welliogton via Sydney.