CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 288, 6 December 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegfaph—Copyright, BOER WAR.

J .GENERAL ITEMS, | PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. j London, December 4. Miss Hobhouse, in a long letter to the press, complains of her arrest and deportation. Lord Hobhouse asserts that the action was illegal and that the will immediately test the question. ' The Morning Post states that 50' Dutchmen have joined the Boers, via Delagoa or Cape since July. Commandant Fouche has reported to the British that two of the Connaught Rangers, who were reported to have been captured by his men and afterwards shot, were fairly shot in action. Mr. St. John Brodriak has reprimanded thi commander of the regiment for circulating an unsubstantial allegation against the enemy.

HARASSING THE ENEMY. DR. KRAUSE'S TRIAL ADJOURNED. Received 5,10.31 p.m. London, December 5. Delarey is recovering from enteric fever. M*j ir-Ganeriil Methuen's latest operations in the north-west result-.d in the capture of 36 Bow*. Rimington'ci Guides killed several, including Field Cornet Klopper, northwards of Bloemfontein.

Colonel Elliott wounded ten, including a Field Cornet, at Nadin; and thirteen elsewhere in Orange Colony. He also captured 13 rebds in tbe Cape districts.

Dr. Krause was remanded till the 12th. The witnesses proved the chief points in counsel's opening statement of October Bth. The original letters were identifi d as Krause's, and Mr. Arnold Forster, repeating his, evidence, gave as a reason for this belief, that the threats were levelled at himself.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN J ' Received €, 0.44 a.m. London, December 5. I A bint has been received from an unexpected quarter that one or two of the Powers would be glad if the war is protracted, so as to keep England occupied. They are astonished and alarmed at the attitude of tbe Boer leaders in Hol'and.