| Show SOUTH inn THE BRITISH PUBLIC 1 London Dee Dec 27 T a m The paucity and obscurity of the dispatches from South Africa give rise to renewed anxiety Apparently the disturbed area of Cape Colony extends further south than it did last December and Lord Kitchener does not appear to have had much success as yet in driving back the invaders The war ar office hail had received no news last evening of the reported capture of yeomanry near A dispatch has a mys mysterious reference to an unfortunate mistaking of the enemy for Brabants Horse which resulted in the sounding cf of cease lire fire and enabled the Boers Boe s sto to occupy all the commanding poi tiong the British retiring from a difficult difficult cult General Clements success against the Boors Boers in the region is also doubtful the last dispatch report reporting jag ing that it was considered advisable not to force the Boors Boers from their position pod tion The British press continues in the main optimistic but the condition of affairs brings home the enormous dif difficulties difficulties that will face Lord Kitchener m in patrolling and policing such im 1111 immense mense tracts even when the Boers Beers shall be finally subdued The Daily Mall Mail which Strong a appeal to the government to face the facts and send Lord Kitchener more nithe troops troop says nays There is a real risk in being lulled to sleep by carefully censored mess IncaS Lord Kitchener according to a dis dispatch dispatch patch from Johannesburg has issued a proclamation Pretoria Dec 20 announcing that burghers who vol voluntarily voluntarily surrender will be to live Uve with their families in the govern government meat ment laagers until suIi time as mis guer guerrilla villa rilla warfare has sufficiently abated to admit of their returning in safety to their homes The proclamation also promises that all property and stock brought in at the time of surrender will be respected and paid for if requisitioned by the military authorities General Kitchener has left and has gone northward The rapid concentration of troops in Inthe the disturbed districts through the per personal onal energy of General Kitchener has allayed the local uneasiness Wellington N Z Dec 27 The sixth contingent of New Zealanders strong half hlf being Maoris will sail for South Africa in three weeks Landon Lenden Dec 27 It is announced that Lord William Leslie Beres Beresf Beresford f ford rd who wh inns has been suffering from per peri peritonitis but whose condition on Christ Christmas Christmas mas day dav was tas somewhat improved has had n a serious relapse The decision to include Maoris in the New Zealand contingent is extremely Interesting as at the beginning of the warthe the government promised not to employ blacks |
