NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TN the matter of war news there is practically nothing to
record this week except the usual captures. These, how- ever, though low in total figures, include a very considerable number of Boer officers, which is, we trust, a good sign. Mr. Edgar Wallace, the able correspondent of the Daily Mail, in his telegram to Friday's issue evidently thinks it is. He also mentions that General Botha's movements "are restricted by the columns and the blockhouses to a circle round Ermelo and Carolina, and he may be engaged at any time." That sounds fairly promising, but if the columns are waggon columns, General Botha will almost certainly get through. He is a difficult man to chase in such vehicles, and has evidently a constitutional dislike to the air so popular with the British military authorities, "Wait for the Waggon."
