CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 283, 30 November 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph —Oopybiqht.

BOER WAR. FEB PBKHB ASSOCIATION. London, November 28. The Paris correspondent of the Timet stys that Sir H. Campbdll-Bannerman has heretofore been the chief evangelist with the Buers, but his last speeoh, declaring annexation inevitable, came as a tercible shrck, bis admirers interpre - ing his attitude es a selfish device to oust the Unionists. Twenty thousand horses have bean shipped at Fmine, Huigory, for South Africa. Mr Gerald Balfour, speaking at Manchester, said Lord Kitchener's offer to General Botha, that the Transvaal should first be tieated as a Crown colony, then repretentative government would * e admitted, and finally responsible government) granted, was still open. A IIELD-OORNKT OAFfUrfBD. FOUOHE EXECUTES TWO BHITIBH SOLDIKRB. A NEW ZKAIjANJJER WOUNDED. Received 29, 9.55 p.m. London, November 29. Colonel Oole captured Field-Cornet Yaurensbuig and thirteen others in eastern Orange Colony. Sever.il smaller successes um repotted. Fouche shot two priva' es < f 'he Cmnaught Bangui s, captured at Dordrecht. The reition is not known. Smgeant Thomas Harris, Sixth New

Zealand' Mounted?, was slightly wounded at Waklctirstroaoi. SUGGESTED ARMISTICE TO CONSIDER TERMS OF PEACE. ♦ Received 30,0.15 a.m. London, November 29. Tha Daily Aeuis urges that a long armistice sh»u'd be granted, to enable

uue viuws ui dubi* uguwiv, retugees, and pritoaers to bo a'scirtaiutd regarding the establishment. of psac, on a basis of fed t ration of all South African customs and railway revenues for the purpose of full local autonomy in the Transvaal. The Government has appointed & Commission to suggest an am -ndment t j of the gold laws, with a view to 11 ing the power of the capitalists.

) In view of the recrudescence of German joy over the small successes of the Boers, and the op*n expre-sion of Teu- , tonic hostility to England, it is quite , pleasant to read the le'ter of a German , lieutenant-colonel published in a rei cent issue of the Times. This officer does not" share what he calls the " hatred and hysterical indignation " of , his country's Press towards Eugland and the English. He scouts the idea that we wage war by " m thods of barbarism," and roundly declares that the Germans would not have hesitated, in 187 C, to take the most extreme measures to stop guerilla warf «r*», had such bean necessary. Finally, he p lints out that the Boer war is not as otber war*, because, instead of having to fight a chivalrous foe, "the English can hardly bring their ebemy to a stand-up fi b ht. have had few opportunities of discovering his chivalry, but, on the other hand, have bad plentiful exprrieoeea of his bushrai ping propensities and his 1 treachery, of en amounting to actual j ! crime."' Alt of which is true and pertinent; to the -subjecr, though it will | not oonvince the writer's foliow-coun-; j try men any more tiia-i it will ourj l home-madu pro-Boers. S i'l, one is j 1 gl*d to find so much sob jr sense in a ' I some if hat unexpected quarter,—frm. ,