The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-26
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MOVE.
De Wet Crosses the
Vaal and Gets
Recruits.
HE HAS SEVEN
THOUSAND MEN
Martial Law in Cape Colony
and More Heavy
Guns.

LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE important
report received from johannesburg
that General De Wet has crossed the
Vaal and Joined forces with the Trans
vaal commandos, if true, probably
means the concentration of 1000 Beers,
with several guns, for another big at
tack. There is rumor current in
Cape Town that several Boer leaders
are urging an attack upon the mines.
1t has long been understood that Gen.
eral De Wet has been anxious to join
the invaders in Cape Colony, and this
rumor may be spread to cover an at
tempt to break southwark.
A small Boer commando entered
Sutherland cut the telegraph wires,
looted the stores, and then proceeded
northward According to the Cape
Town correspondent of the Daily Mail,
the Beers occupied Aberdeen, forty
miles south of Graaf Reinet, Tuesday
AS an outcome of the ract that the
Beers in several instances have worn
khaki, a Government notice has been
promulgated in Pretoria prohibiting
civilians from wearing khaki and noti-
flying all persons who wear this Co.'S
tune, which is likely to be mistaken
for the British uniform, that they will
render themselves liable to arrest and
imprisonment.
The War Office issued no fresh news
yesterday. The response to the gov
ernments call for volunteers is said
to be very brisk in both London and
the provinces. Defensive measures in
South Africa proceed apace. Seven
thousand men have joined the City
Guard in Cape Town, and 5000 others
have volunteered in the suburbs. An
additional big gun has been mounted
on Table Mountain
PRETORIA, Jan. 17.-Boer families
and their stock are being systematic
ally brought into convenient centers
from all over the country They are
kept in camps and fed. Those who
surrender voluntarily are supplied
with full rations, and those whose hus-
bands are still in the field are supplied
for on a reduced scale, which is raised,
when the husbands surrender, to a full
allowance.
LONDON, Jan. 17.--General Kitchen
er, telegraphing from Pretoria under
date of Wednesday, January 10th, says
the concentration of 5000 Beers at Car
olina CTransvaaD is reported.
The stop-the-war committee today
issued a statement saying: Orders
which a British officers reports he re-
ceived reveal the adoption by Lord
Roberts and Lord Kitchener of policy
having for it's aim the determination
nf a heroic nationality
women and children, and the deliberate
massacre of unarmed prisoners"
The latter clause alludes to General
Kitchener's alleged secret orders TO
General De Vets pursuers to take no
prisoners.
Copies of letters from an unnamed
British army otncer containing these
and other charges will be sent by the
committee to Lord Salisbury, Lord
Roberts and others.
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 17.-Martial law
has now been proclaimed in every port
of Cape Colony except the districts
of Cape Town, Simonstown, Wyhberg,
Port Elizabeth and East London. It
has also been proclaimed in Tombu-
land, Griqualand East, and in East and
West Pondoland. 1t has been pro-
| claimed unlawful for any person in the
Cape peninsula, except officials and
| regular or order troops, to possess
arms and ammunition, or either.
The casualty list issued yesterday
shows that the Beers have released 297
British who were captured at Helvetia
and Belfast. The facts regarding the
captures at Belfast have not been Civ
en- out.
1t is understood that more heavy
naval guns will be landed at the Cape.
Information as to the doings of the in
vaders is hard to obtain, but it is clear
| that they are getting very little help
from the Dutch. Twice they attempted
! to capture Barkley East, but both
| times they We're repulsed. For three
| days they occupied Sutherland, but
| they cleared out on the approach of
a British column. Small scattered par
| ties are reported operating In various
parts of the Ceres district Apparent
! ly the invaders abandoned the idea of
attacking Clanwilliam on finding the
| town well defended. commando OF
| LOCO has been active in the Richmond
| distriof, but there the Beers have Sc
| cured only 100 Dutch recruits.
| LONDON, Jan. 18.-General Kitchen
! er, te1egraphing from Pretoria today
! says Colonel Gray, with New Zealand
ers and bushmen, have vigorously at
tackled the enemy eight miles west
of Ventorsburg. completely routing 80
/ Beers.
General Kitchener adds details of the
insignificant casualties of both forces
/ and continues: "Colville's mobile col
umn was attacked north of Standerton
January II, by concentration of tbs