Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-17


 date of January 1G. says the concen- tration of 3,OOU Boers at Carolina (TransvaaD is reported.
 He adds that Colvilles Mobile col ulnn was engaged near Van Tondes Hook. The Bocrs were driven off with heavy loss.
 Three hundred Boers entered Aber- dcen yesterday, footed the stores and retired on the arrival of hundred British infantry.
 Cape Town, Jan 1T.-An additional gun has been mounted in s- DIOckhouSe on Table mountain. The absence of news from the northwestern districts of the colony is causing anxiety here, as the disloyal Dutch are very numer- ous in that section. The News, one of the Afrikander bond papers, is endeav bring to discredit the official report of tine outrages on the peace cnvoys by General De Wet.
 Manchester Jan 1.-The Guardian learns that the depression which af- fccted the queen during the early stages of the war in South Africa has returned.
 Nice. Jan 17.-Queen Victoria's op- l ion on rooms here expired Tuesday. 1 She will pay 750OO francs for the | rooms whether she comes here or not Pretoria, Jan 17.-KOekkoemOer a Boer, who took the oath of neutrality, was yesterday found guilty at Johan- l nesburg of having arms in his posses | sion and was sentenced to death No reports of fighting had been received yesterday. Pretoria is full of troops who are getting ready for further op- | eratiOns.
 Vancouver, B. C.. Jan 17.-A private | cable dispatch received her says that T. E. Spring, whose wife lives in this city, has been hanged ill Pretoria for giving Information regarding the Brit ish movements to the BoerS. Two years ago Spring deserted his wife and children here. eloping to Australia with his wife's sister. When the couple reached Sydney Spring deserted the woman and joined corps of yolun- teers for South Africa.
 London, Jan 17-A report has been received from Johannesburg that Gen. eral De Wet has crossed the Vaal and joined forces with the TranSyaal com ] nandoes. If true, this probably means the concentration of 1000 Boers, with several guns, for another big attempt | There is a rumOr current in Cape | Town that several Boer leaders are
 urging an attack upon the mines. Il
 has long been understood that Gen
 cral De Wet has been anxious to joir
 the invaders in Cape Colony, and this
 rumor may be spread to cover an at
 tempt to break southwark
 The response to the governments
 call for volunteers is said to be very
 b1isk in both London and the prov
 inces. Defensive measures in Soutl
 Africa proceed apace. Seven thousand
 men have joined the city guard il
 Cape Town. and 3,CO0 others have vol
 unteered ill the suburbs. An addi
 tional big gun has been mounted ol
 Table mountain.
 A small Boer commando entered Sutherland, cut the telegraph wires footed the stores and then proceede, . northward. According to the Cap ! Town correspondent of the Dali. Mail. the BoerS occupied Aberdeen . seventy miles north of Graft Reinet Tuesday
 Bonnet Burleigh. who has returne to Cape Town, sends to the Dail !, Telegraph an cnigmatical dispatch dated January 1G, saving: ".All our sol diers. whether from Orange River col ony or the Transvaal look the pictur of health; and it is hoped that the en | | is steadily coming nearer. The few rt e cent successes of the Boc- are annoy ing. Twenty thousand reinforcement :, have arrived and they are in camp i Cape Colony. Tic riders are six mile : east of the town, ;inG are being prcsse by our troops.'
 This presumably means that Tor
 Kitchener has sent 2O,GO0 men int
 Cape Colony.