The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-10

LONDON, November SO.-The CORE
spondent of the Times ion Pretoria.
where recent dispatches giving the
of Boer commanders are sup
posed to have been allowed 60 pass
through the censorship as a warning
that more troops were needed in south
Africa, today sends "a sketch of the poo
sitions of the British columns and
states explicitly that men are needed
to expedite the attrition of the Beers
and that a further partitioninE of the
country by lines of block houses is
necessary to enable the British col
umns to achieve greater results.
Seemingly fearing that an alliance
between the pro- Bullerites and the pro-
Beers during the demonstration to be
held tomorrow i'm Hyde Park i'm sympa-
thy with General Butler may be the
beginning of a serious anti-GOVernment
agitation. the Standard this morning
semi-oflicially warns General Butler
that unless he checks the extravaganza
of his partisans the Government may
be compelled TO make further disclos-
ures which will cause a revulsion of
feeling against the General
The Standard hints that General
White at first refused to regard Cen
eral Buffers heliogram as authentic,
and when il was deliberately repeated
LONDON, November 25.-This morn
ing's dispatches from South Africa
show that the recent fighting near VII
liersdorp, southwest of Standerton, as
to which Lord Kitchener reported no.
thing beyond the fact that Command
ant Buys had been captured after at
lacking a patrol of 100 railroad piOn-
GERS, was really a serious affair. 1t
seems that Grobelaar's command sue
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a British force of 100 British cape rail-
way pioneers. Subsequently Colonel
Rimington came up with reinforce
ments, and, after heavy fighting, COM
PEELED the Beers to retire and to re-
lease their prisoners. The British. losses
included Major Fisher killed and three
officers wounded. The casualties
among the men have not yet been re-
ported.
LONDON, November 29-In the
course of an important speech at Croy-
don last night, G. T. Richie, Secretary
of State for Home Affairs, declared
that Premier Salisburys statement
that no shred of independence should
be left to the republics had been
twisted and contorted in a way Lord
Salisbury never intended. 1T was not
intended" he said, that the Beers
should not have a representative in the
Government or that we insisted upon
unconditional surrender, except i'm the
sense that we could not again offer the
terms which had been rejected"
If any General representing the Beers
in arms, said the speaker, has made a
proposition of peace on the conditions
that the Beers should in the course of
time, have a representative in the Gov
eminent, he was satisfied such a propo-
sition would be referred home by Lord
Kitchener and would form basis for
the conclusion of peace.
I'VE desired a termination of HOSTILE
ties" concluded Mr.. Richie, 80 that
Boer and Briton could live together in
peace and amity, and the same extra
ordinary success which has attended
the British administration of Egypt
would be repeated in South Africa if
the Beers would only frankly acknowl-
edge their defeat and ask for terms
LONDON, November 25.-Colonel Ar
thur Lynch, the newly elected Member
of Parliament for Galway, has been in
formed that if he comes to England he
will be tried for treason.
Lynch served as a Colonel in the -Bo-
er army and took part in many engage
ments with the British. He is now a
resident of Paris, but has expressed his
determination to go to London to claim
his seat in Parliament.