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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 130, 19 November 1901, Page 3

A French -correspondent of an English paper writes: boeb As the result of comOouNTiFa. pilation, I have been able to get together from the files of La Patrie during the last two years an amazing mass of statistics ooncerning the " South African War. There have been, by the Patrie'a showing, 1101 battles, and the principal results of these combats have been: Boer losses: killed, 181 men including 23 officers; captured, 800 men and 17 officers. British losses: 3,189,180 men including 60,000 officers; captured, 190,000 men and 8000 officers, Boer guns captured, 14 ; mules and horses, 30; provision trains, 42. British guns captured, 2160 ; horses and mules, 7000; provision trains, 818 Decisive Boer victories, 1094. Decisive British victories, 7. \ Boer forces pursued Jby British, 121 ■ : BtitiS a forces pursued fey Boera, £s£&s -ui!e3. Boer generals killed, 0. British generals, killed 74, including 5 who were killed three times and one, General Methuen, who was killed seven times during the first four months. General Kolly-Kenny had his head blown off in three separate engagements succinctly described by the correspondents of the Patrie, and before leaving for home Lord Roberts had lost five logs and nine right arms. Up to last Saturday Lord Kitchener has been assassinated three times by his own men n revenge for the harsh discipline he kept on enforcing. Astounding in its knowledge of South African geography, the Patrie has located 900 out of its 1,101 battles in places of which no Boer ever previously heard the names. During the la3t week this extraordinary statistical organ has recounted the capture or killing 0° more British troops than the London War Offioe seems to be aware are still in South Africa. '