The Government has arranged for the immediate dispatch of reinforcements to South Africa, the Australian Colonies and New Zealand being invited to send further mounted contingents.
Three thousand horses beyond the usual monthly supply are to be sent.
General French routed 2,500 Boers near Krigersdorp on the 19th, Another Boer commando has eatered Cape Colony. Kimberley is seriously threatened.
The railway has been torn up in three places beyond De Aar.
The Standard Bank of South Africa, in view of the gravity of the situation, has removed its assets from Graf Reinet, Aberdeen, and Cradock to Port Elizabeth, and its assets at other outlying places to Capetown,
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