CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 4, 6 January 1902, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

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BOER WAR.

ttKNBBAL ITEMS. TIB PBSBS ASSOCIATION. London, January 3. Continental calumnies of the British Army are being actively levivtd, especially in German newspapers, which make monstrous accusations, and state that officers and soldiers ravished onethiid of the Boer women and children, who were felso handed over to the Kaffinf. Tfce statements are based on •utfcqnty of alleged eye witnesses. Inters indignation has Inen aroused ; Q Qpat Britain. , Oommanilant Snayman, formerly of y i General JDe Wet's staff, interviewed, President Eooeevalt and declared that England would welcome the intervention to end the war. The Boer*, he cud, were willing to make some concessions. Sidney, January 4. : Volunteers for the contingent are plentiful in all the State*, and enrolment his commenced. Mslbouknis, January 4. The steamer Fortunatus, from the Cape, brings over a hundred returned soldiers, including Lieutenant McLaine. - New Zealaader.

A "TALL" PREDICTION. VARIOUS CAPTURES OF BOERS. THE ALLEGED CONCENTRATION CAMP OUTRAGES. Baoafade, 4.46 p.n). London, January 4. Botha has forwarded a message to all commandants to continue fighting, and declares that the British Parliament will shortly be asked to grant more money to continue tt>e war. The nation will refuse, and troops will be withdrawn from South Africa. Da Wet has ordered his followers to retard the construction of blockhouses •tall costs. Thirty Boars were killed and maoy wounded at Tweefontein. Major-Genera! Bruce Hamilton raptured a laager, with 22 Boers, and 14 waggons, towards Swasiland. . Lord Kitchener reports that Major- ' General Bruce Hamilton, operating cast of Ermelo, has captured since De-. cember 29 th 100 pzisoners, including! General Erasmus, and much stock and ; waggons. lord Roberts, replying to a German ] lady's statements in the newspaper , Veutschen Blatt and other publications, in reference to alleged violating of Boer women and girls and tbe removal to Pretoria of females above 13 years of age from the Irene concentration camp for immoral purposes, declares that the charges are absolutely baselees, TRAOKERS WANTED. HOW BORR FORCES ABB BEFIJI WISHED. Received B, 4.55 p.m. London, January 4. Icrd Kitchener has telegraphed to LorjfMinto asking for trained trackers to accompany the Canadian Contingent. Boer circles in Brussels deny the depletion of the Boer forces, and declare that losra from Ideaths, captures, ■* and jumnderers are easily filled from . thtynks of the Afrikanders. Johannesburg Star has resumed publication. Lord Milner, in starting the machinery, wished the paper a brilliant future. BKDUOTIONS IN BBFTIBH FOBOIS. Received 6,0.60 a.m. lahdon, January 5. , The total reduction in the British field form in South Africa to the end of December was 3602 officers and 80,134 men, including 931 offiers and 18,033 men bv deaths and 2664 officers and 61,666 men invalided home. The war has reduced the effective strength of the army by 24,299.

Hokitika, January 4. The Premier has received a telegram from the Governor with reference to filling up vacancies in the Sixth and Seventh Contingents, stating that he has received the following from the Secretary of State: ynur telegram of 26th December, his Majesty's Government gladly agree to A hundred additional men."

Wellington, January 4. The Governor has been advised that Trooper W. R. Davies, of Med bury, Canterbury, was severely wounded in the chest, near Incogo, on 29 v h ultimo;' G. A. Sargeeon, of the Sc n ttish Horso,| •on of William Ssrgcson, Hawera, di»d of entoric at Germißtoß on the 19th' Dacembnr, and the following member* of the Seventh are dangerously ill of enteric fever: Trooper McNairn (Westport), at Mcoi River, LanceCorpnral R. T. Flower (Blenheim), at Newcastle, Trooper B. B. Reville (? D. R. Pevcll, Ohristchurcb), at Charlestown'.

Lord Kitchener has cabled Premier:—" I, together with the officers and men of the Army in South Africa, deeply appreciate tbe kindness and untiring assistance we receive from the Government and people of Now Zealand. We shall be delighted to welcome the Eighth Contingent, which, I feel euro, will add to the reputation of its predecessors."