CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 291, 10 December 1901, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BOER WAR. m . GENERAL ITEMS. FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, December 8. Lord Methuen captured 1200 catt'.e and 12000 sheep. Hendrick Albertyn, a corporal in a rebel commando, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life at Graafreniet on •charges of marauding and incendiarism. The Boer de egates at Brussels have instructed the Berlin and Munich Committees to agitate for Lord Milnet's removal. Miss Hobhouse's pamphlets are being distributed gratis at Berlin books'alls. A newspaper has nude an offer of pro-Boer literature as Christmas prizes. DUTOH AMBULAACE STAFF. Received 9, 8.57 a.m London, December 8. fiaron Yon Lijndon, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs, declared in the Sicond Chamber that Great Britain declined to liberate on parole the stiff of the Second Dutch Red Cress Ambulance, who we< e lured to South Africa, as she is not obliged to release them until peace is declared. The war, he added, has cost England 18,798 lives. HIBB HOBHOUSE'S LATEST MOVE. HOBS BURGHERS ANXIOUS TO BND THE WAR. Received 9,10.5T pjn. London, December 9. Miss Hobhouse has commenced an action against Lirds Kitchener and Milner and the military authorities oo the grounds of false imprisonment and assault.

Trooper John Dillars, Seventh New Zealand Contingent, was slightly wounded at Standerton.

An armoured train repulsed 400 Boers who were trjiog to cro»s the railway at Platvaus. Increasing numbers of the better class of burghers are anxious to fight fer the British. They declare that the, irreconcilaWes are ignorant marauders.

A commando Las bean captwed south of Wepener,

DISTRIBUTION OF BOER FORCES. Received 10,0.12 a.m. London, December 9. There are no British troops north of the Delagoa Bay line, where the country is exceptionally fertile and supplies plentiful. The Boers are reaping and hiding crops. A thousand are concentrated at Rustenburg and Zeerust, under Kemp, and a similar number are at Sou'b Heilbron with De Wet. The main group of Cape Beers are north-east of Catainia, another in the Olanwilliam district, and a third north of Ceres.

BOERS BSOAFING NORTHWARD. THE TIMES ON THE SITUATION. URGES ACCEPTANCE OF MORE COLONIAL TROOPS. Received 10,0.14 am. London, December 9. Commandos from the high veldt in Ermelo district are constantly trying to break through the lines northward. Thirty, including probably tlr itinerant Boer Government, escaped on Thursday under cover of a big demonstration. The block-houses, which are a mile apart, are powerless to wholly stop the enemy escaping. The Times urges that blockhouses should be built every six hundred yards, and connected by wire entanglements.

The Times also says that greater exertions are required to finish the war this year, and advises an appeal to the City of London to send more Imperial Volunteers, and the acceptance of all colonial offers of troops.