THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 8 January 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

Kruger's Weakness Increasing,

Many Difficulties Set in the Way.

Australia will Send More Troops

(PER SRESS ASSOCIATION.)

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London, January 7. Krugcr is suffering from increasing weakness of the heart. Capetown reports that there are 90,000 troop's guarding the lines communication and engaged in garrison work,

Forty thousand reinforcements is rc- . uired, apart from South African recruits; 'L'lio farmers of Clan William district refuse to sell hones and dare the British troops to take them. Leyds, Eroff, and Kruger's grandson, who recently went to Europe, and Henri Rochefort are actively despatching via Nanlaqualand recruits for (be Boers. iSvi>xi:v. This Hay. Lyne states that additional troops lor South Africa will be contributed on the basis of population in each colony. New .South Wales will send about I,<nY). Already 900 have volunteered in Adelaide and over 2,000 in Melbourne.

Another Severe Defeat

Loxnoy, January 7. Major-General Babington defeated Dc Lircy's aud Stcenkamp's commandos at Naauwpoort, forcing them to retire northwest, and capturing Commandant Dupreofi. The Boer casualties wero twenty and the British slight. . A hundred and 20 of Knox's force came in contact with a superior force near Lindley. Col Lang, two officers, and fifteen men were killed and two officers and twenty men wounded.