The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 131, 21 November 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

— : :o: London, November 17. A dozen more Boer leaders have been banished, including the Landrost of ZoUtpansberg, A Blue Book dealing with the coni centration camps, shows that mothers : refuse to obey doctors and nurses, and r administer as a remedy for measles . tea made from horses’ dung. They ; refuse to wash their children, though ' black as Kaffirs through dirt. They paint their bodies, except their faces where green paint is used, with the . result that arsenical poisoning ensues. ■ They insist on administiring Dutch quack remedies, containing ether and opium. They feed their children on sardines instead of milk, and use horse dung poultices, refusing proper ones. Women abstain from entering the Maternity Hospital, believing they will be starved there, and prefer the services of untrained midwives. The occupants of camps are extremely callous to each other’s Bufferings. November 18. The Times Vienna correspondent states that an unprejudiced foreigner who has returned from South Africa attributes the duration of the war to insufficient mounted troops, 20 per cent being engaged in army attendance duties. The enemy’sestimnted strength in September was 12.000, and they had an equal number in reserve in the mountain fastnesses. He added that the Boers ought permanently to be excluded from the gold-mine territory, as they would be powerless if deprived of gold. The Crown Beef mine, Durban, and the Roodopoit mine are starting fifty stampers each. November 18. The Standard states that Mf Fischer, a Boer emissary, has returned to Holland, persuaded by persons in an influential position that the Kaiser’s policy in regard to the Transvaal will rfinain unchanged. Brussels advices state that De Wet has collected 6000 aen, including 1500 Afrikanders, and will commence a vigorous offensive campaign in the north of the Orange River Colony. The crew of a Dutch fishing boat, after confining the captain in the cabin, pretended that they were in distress. A Ramsgate smack went to their assistance, and the Dutchmen boarded the English boat, shouting “ Long live the Boers.” They wounded several of the English, but ultimately allowed the uuack to proceed to Ostend. v ’’ November 19. Colonel Clark in a fortnight cleared (the Bethlehem district, bringing 30 Boers to Winburg. There have been small but obstinate skirmishes, during which 17 Boers were captured near Harrismith.