The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 126, 9 November 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

London Novembft j Natives in the Rustenberg djjt" have been supplying Kemp's corotnu with food. It was De la Bey's intention, when made the attack' on Vondonop's co ]- on October 24th, 'to capture Briti guns.

„ Norenjbßr6. t Mr Chamberlain is selecting {* English women as trained teachers I the children in the concentration CVBa at a salary of £IOO a year and rations. r The total reduction in the field fL ■ at the end 61 October was 3357 office, r and 74,649 men, including 855 ofW and 16,989 men dead, and 2504 ind 57,136 men invalided. ! Thirteen thousand three hundred m ; thirty-eight Boers were killed, capt w J or surrendered during 1901. • Lord Kitchener's weekly report et & |» that 28 Boers were killed and H wounded; 575 prisoners were taU and there were 23 surrenders; 230 rifi M 21,500 rounds of ammunition, m waggons, and 1430 cattle ivere captured, A thousand Boers have been shipped Durban for Bombay. November "7 Numbering according to nationality under martial law at the Cape ehowej thousands of Continentals among recent' arrivals, apparently mercenaries bound north.

Persistent reports are circulated that De Wet is collecting mercenaries «itl straggling Boers in toemaraland and Busbmansland.

Mr Brodrick, in a letter to the Biihcp of Rochester, reviews the strenuoni 1 measures which had been taken t« ameliorate the condition of the camp* If the doctors at the termination of thj winter recommend transfer to the seagidt expeuses will not impede such a course He reminds critics that 'bands of desperadoes are striving to rtnder tit eountry uninhabitable, and that the mortality at the camps is largely due t« the weakening effects otf privations pr.or jo admission. New Yobk, November 5,

Mr John Redmond, in addressing 3000 people at New York, said the infamiesol the Boer concentration camps eclipsed the erueltiesof General Weyler in dealing with Cuban concentrados. No murdeiet was worse than Mr Chamberlain, who deserved hanging to a lamp post. Holland has accepted the British offer in settlement of hor claims for eompema> tion for the deportation of Dutch sub. jects in South Africa.