The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 130, 19 November 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London, November 14. Mr Brodriek, speaking at the Oity Carlton Club, paid that, the Boers frequently rr.urd-red Kaffirs in order to conceal their tsaeks from the puisuing columns. Tha bloc' houses built ex] eluded Boors from 14,700 square miles of country in the Transvaal, and from 17,000 in tha Orange lliver Colony. Forty-two thousand adult males had been captured, f.nd 11,000 ki!leb\ wounded, or left the country. Ho b-ii,iv(fd thcr- were 10,0 i 0 st 11 in the lb-Id. The G.vermm'o! w>;re sending two regimen: s of 2000 oth*r mourned \ w ., ivg-dar lints battalion's, iui.i .-ome militia regiments to ,'vuth Afii'j!, and Indii would supp'y troops from two cviirt legimenis, and a cdony, tot SoMh Afrioau, had offered. f.e.Ji) (:o::< J i:tj.;crif.is. Mr Brodiirk announced that MajorGeneral Sr A-ch'taM Run'.er wil--command the Fourth Army Corps, a:>d tiat Sir Kve.'yn W-'mi .i.n.i the Duke of 0- nimngbt, (.■ommamitiig ths Socoid a.-id Third Army c.xtk respectively, wo.ild b.lhtak-e-..i,.;n =nd in the field in the event of their corps being ordered fur a.itivo aervce. November 15 Prominent mom bora of the Africander Bond are sevuiing ih-ir connection and declare that the leader* 0 f the Bond have mi-led the country and be* rayed their followers. There arc indications of ; lvvulsion oi feeling. The Daily Telegraph's corresponds ri» dea-ribes tue u-je by Boeis of expand:*:? bullets in rtcent b,itt w, and. of the callous robbery cf dying and dead at Sandberg. K.ii-I Selborne, speaking at Leed«, Rahi the 8.-er, wer* absolutely irreconuilable. If responsible government were granted Co them imm- iat,dy, they would use, it like a rifla against us. There* must b». in the interim a period for re-jo: struct ion on a basis of just, free govtruimnt Time would do ili& Great Britain has granted Belgiun? £4OOO lo settle the ciaira.-t of Belgians deported from South Awiea. November 16. Lord Kircbcnrr's despatches for July and August sir w that he U confident of gr-dtuliy ci-pling the He stales that org-nixed L'timidatioo pre-, vents the surrender of many, who are otherwise eager to surre-ider. Lord Kic ener reports that Kitchener's Fighting y c ours, forming G-uer&l ByuJs re r,uard, near Hdlbron, aftf-r t, two hours' fight, decisively repelled 400 Hours, who, it is believed, were ur.dir i)e Wet. Eight 'Boer* were kdled ; four British were killed and' five wounded. Three hundred Boers at Braksprmtj, Magliesburg district, surrounded a Yeomanry patrol, killing six 'and "wound?r/g 16, and Cipturing the. others, afterwards releasing several of theni. Reinforcements arrived and drove the enemy off. Kitchener has despatched specially mobile columns, with a free hnnd, to operate" in the different districts. Nbvemb r 17. A Blue Book dealing with the concert. traJ i--.ii camps shows that the earnest efforts of the authorities were largely b fii-d by the inconceivable ignorance, obstinacy, riithiness,'"fatalism, and laziness of the inmates. Syjdnky- November 17. the Em Rupert Garringtori, commanding the Third New South Wales Ba-hru?.), in S»uth Africa, has cab'ec! to the Government that men are urgentj required for his regiment, ami asking ; f thy Government can induce the pas,to.adits to raise 150 Bushmen fqr six months service. The pay will be is per day; the Imperial Governm-.-nB equipment will be found, and "a rehire pas-age allowed.