The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-11
THE BOERS
AGGRESSIVE
They Win Another Neat
Success.
ARE INVADING THE SOUTH
Kitchener not Winning LaureIs in His
Pursuit Of the Elusive
Burghsr Chief.

mas received tne tOllOWlng dispatch
from Lord Kitchener:
( "PRETORIA, Dec. 80 Z. M.-Gen-
eral LyttletOn reports that our post at
Helvetia was captured yesterday morn
ing by the Beers About fifty were
killed and wounded and 200 taken pris-
oners. Colonel Kitchener reports that
he is following with a small force in
the track of the enemy, Helvetia being
reoccupied by Reeves. who has been re-
enforced from Belfast.
"Helvetia was a very strong position
on the Machadodorp- Lydenburg rail-
way. and was held by a detachment of
the Liverpool regiment. Am asking for
further information
Lord Kitchener writing from Pre-
toria Saturday, December goth, says:
There is not much change in the stu
alton in Cape Colony. The eastern
force of the enemy appears to have
broken up in small parties at Utrecht
and to be moving about rapidly in the
same district, evidently waiting for
support from the north. The last re-
port states that the western force is
moving to Carnarvon. De Lisle and
Thornycroft are in close pursuit.
French has occupied Ventorsdorp.
Clements reports that he is opposed on
the road to Rustenburg. The eastern
line was blown up near Pan and a train
was held up this morning on the
Standerton line.
General KnoX's column and Boyes'
brigade are holding De Wet from
breaking south"
! While Lord Kitchener sends bad news
for England on the closing day of the
year, the press continues to take a
surprisingly hopeful view of the grave
situation and of revelations of an enor-
mously wide field of Boer activity.
General De Wet is still at large. Kim
berley is isolated. The Beers are in
force enough to have captured a strong
position at Helvetia, in the Lydenburg
district, while, judging from Lord Kit
chener'S very recent advices, no prog
ress is being made against the Boer in
Vaders in Cape Colony.
| According to further telegraphic ad-
vices received yesterday Zeerust is
practically besieged, but has provisions
sufficient for five months. The garri-
son at Ottoshoop has been withdrawn
to Lichtenburg. A dispatch from Car
navon, dated yesterday, reports that
the Beers who have been threatening
that point were driven off and are be-
ing pursued.
! 1T is evident" says n belated me5-
sage from Krugersdorp, dated Decem-
Der 23d, that the Boer commissariat
in the direction of the Magielsburg is
well supplied and that until the cuun-
try between here and .ha MacielshVrg
is properly cleared of Beers they will
continue to concentrate there. the
ground being particularly adapted to
their methods of warfare"
To emphasize Lord Kitcheners COW
ert admission that no progress is be-
ing made against the invasion of Cape
Colony, a correspondent at Burghers
dorp, writing Saturday. reports as fol
lows: 1.-TWO fresh commands are en-
tering the colony One has already
crossed near Knaapdaar and the arriv-
al of another is momentarily expected
in the Steynsburg district. The Roers
are said t. have two or three horses
each, though in bad condition. They
have no guns or transport, but are W"ll
supplied with Lee-Metford rifles and
ammunition. Captured Beers say that
the intention of these commands is to
roam about and wait until De Wet APP
pears on the scene"
All dispatches arriving in London
agree that the Cape Dutch show no
inclination to rise, but, on the contrary,
appear to be tired of the war and de-
sirous of peace. Many refuse 70 supply
the Beers with food and are willing to
give information to the British regard
ing Boer movements.
Details of the Greylingstad affair
show that while Colvllle's column was
ts,..r I,., :. ,f
A. q! Tie enemy was serD moving TO-.
ward the camp where the British trans
port was lnspanned. Tla small British
force made a plucky stand. Re-en-
forcements arrived with artillery, and
after n severe fight the Beers We're de-
feated. The British losses altogether
We're nine killed and siXty-three wound
ed and missing. The Boers are said
to have had thirty-one killed. The
Beers admit that in their fight with
General Clements at Nooitgedacht they
lost $50 men.
at is understood that Lord Kitchen
er cannot ask the colonies officially to
send troops" says n Durham dispatch
dated December 10Th, but he desires
it To be known in Australia and Canada
that Australians and Canadians arriv-
ing in Natal will be eligible for inn
mediate enlistment in the irregular
corps whIor is proceeding TO Jphar-
nesburg for five months service"
Commenting upon the Helvetia dis
aster, the Daily Mail calls upon the
Government to send out at least $4,000
additional mounted men.
CAPE MINISTER ARRESTED,
LONDON, Dec. 31.-A warrant has
been issued against DIR. Tewater, n
member of the late Schreiner Cabinet,
and he Is under arrest on a charge OF
delivering a seditious speech at Graaf
Reinet, melting To rebellion, in connec-
tion with the recent Boer invasion OF
the colonies.
This" says the Cape Town corre-
spondent OF the Daily Telegraph lis
the commencement OF a series OF ar
rests. heralding a wide extension ot
martial law"