15 FEBRUARY 1902, Page 2

The main interest of the war news for the week

is centred in the report of Lord Kitchener's admirably planned and executed attempt to corner De Wet in the Heilbron- Wolvehoek-Kroonstad triangle. De Wet himself escaped by the daring ruse of rushing cattle at the fence on the Kroonstad-Lindley line, and breaking his way through "mixed up with the cattle," but the result of this com- bined " drive " was that with only ten British casual- ties no fewer than two hundred and eighty-three Boers were killed, wounded, or captured. The despatch issued by Lord Kitchener on the 10th shows that during the week no fewer than seven hundred and seventeen Boers had been accounted for, the largest return but one since the war assumed its present phase.