There is nothing very striking to chronicle from South Africa,
for we are not alarmed by the fact that the Elo■-■ commandos that have penetrated into the Celony have as pig been able to evade capture, and that they have even gut within some two hundred miles of Cape Town. They are welcome, if they choose, to dodge and tack and turn till they reach theses and so make their capture a certainty. The Dutch Colonists do not seem to be joining them to any appreciable extent, though they no doubt show them sympathy. For that, how- ever, they are now suffering in kind, for the Boer columns commandeer " freely, and, later, the Bond politicians at the Cape will find the political inconvenience of this new development of Krugerisui. Disfranchisement must be sternly enforced against all British subjects who except under bond,-fide and unavoidable compulsion have given any help to the invaders. But though we are not in the least alarmed by the incursion into the Colony, we are glad to see that adequate precautions are being taken, and to note the splendid response made by the loya Colonists. If the Dutch were to be mad enough—which they will not be— to insist on having it out, they can do so. De Wet, we must add, is still uncaught, but he is apparently tightly held. He cannot get south, and is gradually being pushed north into a region where he must. starve or surrender. The only other item of South African news is that Mr. Kruger is lying very ill with bronchitis at the Hague.
