The "Commercial Intelligence" of the 26th of October contains amap of the affected ier occurred. showing the exact
there between September the Lith, the date upon which Lord Kitchener's memorable proclamation came into operation, and the 20th of October. It has a ghastly significance. It demonstrates at a glance how widespread and serious things were during those five weeks. In that short period there were no fewer than sixty-three engagements, according to Lord Kitchener's official reports. ~The field of operations ranged from Piet Potgicter Rust in the north of the Transvaal. down to Somerset East in the south of Cape Colony; while in the east fighting took place at Esteourt, in Natal, and in the west there were engazements at Hopeticld (about twenty-five miles from the coast) and at Fourteen Streams, The vast extent of this area will be best understood when it is pointed out that the places named tre several thousand miles apart. A diary of the month emphatically shows the serious nature some of the cngaements; it also serves to emphasize the minor character of others. No avenunt is taken of accidents and deaths by disease. It is some consolation to know, however, that almost invariably our forces came out best and the enemy's casualties were ly very much higher than our own, The more serious engagements were astad, Blood River Poort, Vlakfonjo; at the last-named price nu fewer than one officer and nen were killed, 91 wounded ssi aggregate of killed ud wounded at the whole of the five places amed numbered three hundred the mission. The recor, it will be seen, of pri
astd one. Tt voutemplated by even the worst foes of the Government that Lonl Kitchener's proclamation would! have had such an effect. Instewl of quelling the Boers, the horrors of banishment and the confiscation of their estates appear to have fired them with renewed energy for more desperate efforts. Out of sheer desperation to the wildest measures most reckless methods of fight-"consideration is remorselessly swept aside in their frantic endeavour t recover independency. As the drowning man will at a straw, <0 the Boers in ex-tre mis will "not stop short of the most bar-boreus methods, to gain a temporary ad-It is something to know that the Government have at last awakened to the real necessities of the case and are determined to prosecute, the campaign with vigour and severity. Enough has already been laid at their doors from friends and
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