CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 286, 4 December 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric TsusarAPß— Gorman. BOER WAR. GENERAL ITEMB, PBE PEJUS ASSOCIATIC*. LoHDOH, December 2. The Rev. Mr Knox-Little, vker of Hoar Cross, and Canon of Worcester, <*mh (r the course of a sermon yestervocated driving out traitors at H m. and abroad, whose langoag* prolonged the bloodshed in South Africa, The Boers are constantly escaping from the concentration camps and inning commandos, regardless of the oath of neutrality.

Boers it Cap* Colony are raiding Du'ch and British alik*, and thae alienating man; sympathiser*. Commandant Band has again In. vaded o*pa Colony, and has beta pinrd by 150 Boon nortbwarda et PhilipVown.

Majn- Pack-Bedford, while sktrmishing northwards of Bulfoateh\ captured .eleven Boera and may horses. Minor captures nam been made elsewhere.

There is a considerable increase In the number of Boers swearing allsy<ance,boh in the Or*nfa Colonyaid in the Transvaal.

KITOHBNKR'S WEEKLY KXPORT.

MINOR OAPTUBBB. Received 8,11.88 pm. London, December 1 Lord Kitchener's weekly report states that 32 Boers were killed, 18 wounded, 250 made prisoners or ear* rendered, and 143 rifle*, 1600 hones, and 4900 cattle "were captured. Mnjor-Gonerals Bruno Hamilton, Speooe, and Plumer an hustling the enemy in the Ermelodistrics.

Major-General French r*ports, from Myburg that Fouchb'a fore* bed suffered heavily, and wss Muttered. Theron, with small following, bet escaped soath of the Olamri'liaa Hee. Colonel Eliott captured twelve Boers in northern Orange Colony, and Colonel Monro thirteen at Holyrood.