DE WET NEARLY CAUGHT
REBELS FORCE SURPRISED BY BOTHA ... Pretoria, November 13. Official.—General Botha, by a forced night march from .Margiiard to East \\ inubrg, surprised General De Wet. He captured . two laagers, and took 260 prisoners., •
;Lukin. and: Brets, commanding two other commandos, failed to reach their allottedpoints ; in time, otherwise there \Vould .have been a good chance of surrounding''and' 'capturing De Wet and his two thousand followers.
. ANOTHER REBEL LEADER WOUNDED' AND CAPTURED.-. V
. in Pretoria, November 13. General Muller, tli© rebel leader, was wounded and captured at the action at Bronkhurst .Spruit, 16 miles oast of Pretoria.. .On November 7, when a force of police under Colonel Hertz had a sharp _fight. with the rebels, four rebels were killed and 58 captured, together with all the, transport and spare ammunition. • ■
; FRUIT FOR THE WOUNDED London, November 13: Cape Colony are sending fruit tor tho wouiided in the hospitals.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 6
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150DE WET NEARLY CAUGHT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 6
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