The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 121, 29 October 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

London, October 24. , Colonel Colenbrander, with Kitchener's Fighting Scoots, captured forty-tiro Boers on the western border of Zontpansberg. , v A number of Boers are hiding in the Winburgforeat. Colonel Waiter Kitchener is trying to surround them. Campbell's column recovered at Slangapies Colonel Goagh's two gun» captured by the Boers at Scbeepers' Nek. Ootober 25. Colonel Benson captured thirty-five Boers south-west of Middleburg. Mr G. Wyndham, Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office, speaking at Bradford, said that the Government were prepared to take every step recommended by their military advisers in South Africa. t There was nothing more impressive than Lord Kitchener's stoical dignity in pursuing his course without wearing bis heart upon his sleeve for nveryone to peek at, or confiding in svory tattling newspaper correspondent. Cheers.) The Government policy was .o finish the war at the earliest and give iiord Kitcben»r all be asked for in sxecution of the plan,h# had formed as if-st adapted for the country and the actios of the enemy. A squadron surrounding the women's asger in the Harrismith district secured hirty families, including thirty awneci ioers. October 26. The casualties at PaardePlaats include !apt»in Hugo H. Henry, of the Seventh few Zealand Contingent who was omewhat severely wounded in the high.