The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 134, 28 November 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

Londok, November 24. <Jfeafc Britain has accepted offer of ah "additional 600 'mounted infantry for "South Africa. Reuter'a correspondent, in an exhaustive review 'of '-the situation, state* that solid progress ia being 'made m restricting the 'enemy's area of ooctlpation by the extension of "blockhouses. The Morning Post describes the millfe. ary farms, whioh are worked at a profit. Tlw urea-'beiDg cultivated is 5000 aores. Two Britiah coloni.'l officers acco«r» puny 'th* corps, one "ete intermediary 'between the burgher commando and con rnahdera' columns, and the other as quartermaster of commaodants, Briei, formerly burghers' adjutant, and Muller, of 'Pretoria, arte forming corps. Several irarrenaVrera "were '9*eoute& at Johannesburg for recommending surrenderee. : 4j rejoin their commandoes. "November 25. *& "fc6nrbin!*d todvetnent id the Beitc district resulted in the capture of thirty nine Bows. The " bulk of the commando with De Wat escaped south.

Eighty of Aofcerraan'i commando have been captured. Hertzog'a and Menthondt's are tie l bUly commandos remaining in sou h-weat Orange Colony, and are but a few hundreds strong.

Brand commands 400, who are scattered 1 in. 'the Orange Colony.

Mr Chamberlain, has assured hits personal friends that he would quit publio life instantly it he believed that such act on would terminate the War honourably. Earl Roberts assured the 'mounted troopers at Alderahot that the LeeEnfield rifles were equal/if not superior to Mausers.

Sir Gordon Sprigg,'sh6 Csvpe has undertaken to defend- certain districts, commencing at the coast anal and eastern portion of the colony, and. gradually extending the prol eotion area until the regular troops are relieved from mere patrolling duty. Lord Kitchener, replying in the Daily Mail to the manifesto of the German Evangelical Clergy, Btutee'that'the charge contained therein that the British placeA Boer women and children under'fire & order to shield themselves, is absolutely baseless.

The Cologne'Gafeette expressessurprid* at the dre&uiity of the 670 pastors who? signed the manifesto embodying the Btory. Lord Durham in the course of a speech said that when Sir H.'Campbell-Banner-man declared the British guilty ot barbarrma and loathsome behaviour, h« was a fool if he believed 'it. 'Otherwise he was a knave making the assertion fot partisan purposes. Mr Asquith declares that there Is no ground for exaggerated pessimism with regard to the war. Whilst Europe is ringing with violent calumnies against our troops, he was bound to say, with •mphasis, that is cCfurege, endurance, and humanity they 'had never been surpassed in the *nness of Warfare.

Commandant Buys sent Schimpers, the actual murderer of Lieutenant Miers, whe was shot dead in September last'while acting as bearer of a white 'flag, to Louis Botha ! f</r punishment. Most of the Cape Mounted Bifles an& Mounted Polite in the district, the Mounted Volunteers and Town Guards, and neven 'irregular corps have beefe assigned to Sir Gordon Sprigg Wdefend the district* for which he has Undertake* to liqld himself responsible. Berlin, November 26. Most of the 'German papers publish strong contradictions of 'the alleged British atrocities in South Africa. Mr W. t. Stead and the R6v. fcaroli "ftylett bailed tor Krause. the magistrate warned them that if T)r iKranse did. not surrender to his -sureties they woulA 'be liable to be prosecuted for conspiracy. November 22. Despite Mr Barton's announcement that no more contingents will be sent to South Africa, several State Commirr<dants have t>een 'unofficially endeavour), ing to '4rbtain a 'conslderat&oa «clf the matter. The South Australian 'cofcpmandaoi ttwfa&a that 1000 meU tie offered on behalf of tne Commonweallh. The feeling of the Commonwealfo authorities fe unfavourable <U> sending wore troops.