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THE BOER INV ASTON.
News from Cape Colony Not of a
Cheering Nature.
INVADERS HAVE An ARMY OF 5000.
Lord Kitchener Said to BE Having
Trouble in Securing Loyal Farm
crs Enough to Aid In Their
Exclusion.

London. Jan. 2.-The Cape Town
correspondent of the Daily Mail,
which dwells upon the gravity of the
position in Cape Colony, says:
1.-THE Boer invaders now number 5000.
me western invasion gives the most con-
Germ. 1t has split into two divisions, which
are marching like the prongs of fork,
one by way of Sutherland toward Malmes-
bury, and the other toward Beaufort west
me enemy are now ranging over immense
tracts of territory, necessitating the en-
pioyment OF an army corps to deal with
them. Lord Kitchener has poured troops
into the disturbed areas, but the fugitive
tactics of the Beers have to large extent
neutralized his precautions. 1t vas felt
that the only means of excluding the in
vaders from the rich districts in the west
ern part OF the colony was to call out the
farmers. To-day's kilograms promise a
splendid response from the eastern portion,
but the western is doubtful, not 30 per cent
of the population being regarded as loyal
Hence the Boer concentration in that Gdrec-
ton. Letters are arriving here detailing
damage and robbery by the invaders and
beseeching military assistance Any action
on the part Of the colony will not abate the
urgent need Of large reenforcements."
Dispatch from Kitchener.
London, Jan. 2.-Gen. Kitchener has
telegraphed to the war office as fol-
lows:
Pretoria, Dec. sl.-Gen. Knox. who has
been following up De Wet, reports that he
has captured some horses, five wagons with
supplies and 5000 rounds of ammunition.
He has released and allowed to go to their
farms 70 Boer prisoners who were taken
at De Vets lager and who were being
forced to fight Gen. French recently cap
tured IL prisoners and large quantity of
carts and cattle. Among the prisoners was
dispatch rider bearing letter from Bsy.
ers for Smuts.'
Aspect Very Gloomy.
London, Jan. 2.-"The aspect of af-
fairs is scarcely less gloomy" says the
Cape Town correspondent of the
Times, than at the beginning of 1900.
The invading Beers are numerically
fewer, but they have penetrated fur
ther south, and their presence in such
centers of hostile Dutch feeling as
GRAFT Reinet constitutes an element
of danger which did not exist last
January. The proclamation calling
for volunteers comes very late. The
invaders have been enabled to obtain
fresh horses. All the horses in the
colony ought to have been comman-
deered or bought at the first sign Of
invasion" The correspondent COM
plains of the inertia and reticence of
the authorities.
More British Captured.
Colesburg, Cape Colony, Monday,
Dec. 31,-Two hundred and fifty Beers
captured IL men of Nesbitt's horse so
miles southeast Of Colesburg. The en-
envy, since increased to 300, has ap.
peared near Weltevreden and is driv.
ing off stock
Rising in West. Africa.
London, Jan. 2.-The colonial office
is in receipt of news of native rising
in the Gamoia river region of West
Africa. The dispatch conveying this
information adds that punitive ex-
petition is being organized.