The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 132, 23 November 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

London - , November 20. Dr Leyds declares that there will be no peace without a guarantee of independence. Lord Salisbury, in acknowledging a ( vote of confidence at a meeting at York, said that England was the only country where, during a great war, eminent men were permitted to write and speak as if they were the enemy. By the middle of January Lord Kitchener’s columns will have been thoroughly freshened, and will also possess abundance of remounts. A dozen battalions of militia are going to South Africa, Commandant Fouche is north of Jamestown, and returning rapidly to Batkly East. Malan and Hugo Latigan, with thirty men, were puibued hard for several days towards Calvina. All their spare horses were captured. Montz, with 350 men, was driven across the Berg river northwards. In the last encounter with De Wet Prince Radzswill, of Kitchener’s Scouts* was dangerously wounded. Sir Henry Campbell. BamermaU speaking atPJymou'h, denied uttering a syllable that could be twisted into encouragement to the Boers. Re never even expressed ordinary pity or sympathy for the Boers, Great Britain could only govern them with their willing help. Enmity and peril would remain while Mr Chamberlain and Lord Milner were in office. A Cabinet ot business men was impracticable unless matters were c >n-duct-d on business lines The Standard : denounced a proposal to gratuitou ly acrifibe national self-respect, and Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman admits that independence must be withheld. The Orange Colony’s revenue exceeds the expenses of administration. Many more denunciatory meetings have taken place in Germany and Holland. Some students iu Hanover were nearly silled for favouring England. The Ciraes, in a powerful lea ler, calls upon ount Von Bulo .v, the German Imperial uhanc ITir, to define the Government’s attitude and end the agitation against the British, instead of exi.ibiting official olerance or indulgence. It warns Germans that the passionate enmity being displayed is likely to affect relations with Great Britain. Boer refugees in Portugal offer to submit to terms, but great Britain requires an unconditional surrenderMr Herholdt, a member of the Caps Parliament, visited the Transvaal concentration camp.*, and found the management of the camps admirable. He expresses the opinion that the embers of enmity are dying Berlin, November 20. At an anti-Semitic meeting in Berlin a lecturer urged the Boers to assassinate Mr Chamberlain, thus ridding Germany of a rascal fit, for the gallows. home meetings asked the Kaiser personally to rebuke Mr Chamberlain** impudence, but the Veterans’ League abandoned the outcry after receiving a hint from the Government. According to German pro-Boer organs, the anti-Chamberlain demonstration* wllbe resumed on a wider and more distinctly anti-Britr-h character. The Berlin Post declare* that Dr Leyds* speech is a lesson to those Ge-roans who refuse to understand Germany’s officially preferring good relations with England instead of demonstrative coolness. Svuney, November 20. With reference to M..j >r Carrington’* request for more men of the Bushmen type, two squatters offer £SOO each towards the cost of sending a suitable contingent.