Show TROOPS FOR KITC ENER I 1 f I I British War Office Announces That Reinforcements Rein-forcements of Mounted Troops Will Be Sent to South Africa + Situation in the Northern Districts of Cape Colony Is More Serious 2000 Boers Have Invaded That SectionFears Entertained i That Dutch Sympathizers Will Join the RebellionBritish Seethe i See-the Need of Mounted Men 7 o I S London Dcc 22The War office made the following announcement last evening In view of the general J > oBI Lion In South Africa the following reinforcements lon I forcements of mounted troops have been arranged Eight hundred will start next week Two cavalry regiments regi-ments have been ordered to leave as soon as loe the transports are ready The r colonial police will bo increased to 10000 Detachments will leave as fast ns they nro formed Further drafts of cavalry will be dispatched at once Australia and New Zealand have been ustraln Invited 10 send further contingents Three thousand extra horses beyond the usual monthly supply have been contracted for INVASION OF CAPE COLONY The situation in thE northern districts dis-tricts of Cape Colony Is more serious Fully 2000 Doers have Invaded that section Grave fears arc entertained that Dutch sympathizers will join the rebellion and that this will spread Although there is no fear as to the ultimate result the lack of a sufficient number of mounted troops Is felt by the British The enormous waste of horses In South Africa was never fully appreciated until now DRIVEN FROM HOUTKRAAL 0 A dispatch from DC Aar Cape Colony Col-ony says that the yeomanry have driven the Boers out of Houtkraal the > enemy retiring westward The Boers attacked Zunonfonteln December De-cember 11th but were beaten off MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED Martial law will be proclaimed in Worcester Wellington I I and Stcllpn bosch Heavy rains are general and several railway washouts delay the movements of troops I CONCENTRATING TROOPS o From its Capetown correspondent the Daily Mail has received the fpllowlng The second invading force was designed de-signed to occupy Brltstown but being chcckcl by the De Aar troops It has disappeared into life Cedarburg mountains moun-tains An endfmouH concentration of troops is bolng made upon the veldt country occupied by the invaders hut I it is not likely that the Boers will offer battle In large number There Is renewed re-newed demand for the wholesale proclamation pro-clamation of martial law IN OPEN REVOLT We understand that private cable advices have been received London pa y s the London Dally Mal to the effect that virtually all the districts of Cape Colony In the vicinity of the Orange river arc In more or less open rovolt 1 and that there is likely to be sharp lighting on 1 rather large scale before the invasion IH crushed The tactics of the Boers In rallying as many as possible of the Dutch In the back country to their cause are proving successful suc-cessful BAD JN PO WE r 1 MOVEMENTS Gen BadenPowell will start from Capetown for the Transvaal1 tomorrow The Boers dCiallcd a train at Barberton Bar-berton killing an inspector and others BRABRANT SENT TO FRONT Gen Brabrant commander of the newlyraised Colonial division has boon ordered to the front and will start tomorrow FRENCH ROUTS BOER FORCE At Thorndale Gen French has routed 2500 Boers with four guns and a pompom I pom-pom Thorndale Is I sixteen mile north west of Krugorsdorp Tlic ngnt tooK place December JOth The British Jiad fourteen wounded and the Boeri fled wIth about fifty killed in disorder u Jt kied The Boers who invaded Cape Colony had In most cases packhordes In addition ad-dition to those they rode All were in the pink of condition They comman decred at Ventcrstad all possible clothing and stores |