Show DOWN IN SOUTH AFRICA The Boer Invaders are threatenIng Zuurbrak Pass Cape Colony whlc commands com-mands Swcllcndam Tim place 10 well defended British faith In time efficacy of proclamations procla-mations la severely tested as the time limit set by Lord Kitchener and Mr Chamberlain approaches Tho war which was declared by Lord Roberta to be practlcalb over on the eve of thc general elections will bo technically techni-cally at an end In eleven days Rcprescntallong have been made tr Lord Mllner that ho British refugees arc j not nearly so well treated as are Iho Boers and fire suffering terribly There Is no sense of security oven In stronRlygarrlsoncd centers like Pretoria and Johannesburg aa has been shown by the railway reverse north of Watcrvlclt Whatever may bo tIme official lime limit tho war seems destined to dcac along for month after month until time British succeed suc-ceed In wearing out tho guerrillas man by man Tho forces of Cols Scobell and Doran have driven Gen Botha Into the Mortimer Morti-mer distrIct Nearly all of Gen Bothas horses are In an exhausted condition and fully oneMiiartcr oC his commando Is dismounted Lord Kitcheners weekly report has disclosed dis-closed the average list of Boer casualties and British captures but Limo results nro hardly commensurate with the efforts made to scour lie country by a largo number of mounted columns rime going to and fro of certain persons between London and Capetown Is lo ho stopped by flic Government The Pall Mall Gazelle says Ihe malls of other sims peeled persons hnve been examined and that Important correspondence has boon seized Gen Frenchs work Is most difficult and there are few slpns of progress Commandoes Com-mandoes ranging from 300 to 100 mon and boys are here there and everywhere and when the traIl seems hot It Is lost and the commando reappears al the end of a week a hundred miles away |