THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 January 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

[by electric telegraph—copyright.]

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

London, January 14. Lieut Vyly, V.C., Tasmania, who was dangerously wounded at Nooitgodacht, is doing well. The Capetown Town Guards number 6000. January 15. The War Office deny that recruiting for Badcn-Powell’s Police has been stopped. They hoped to raise 10,000 fresh Yeomanry and Cavalry. The Australians arc furnishing another 10,000 mounted troops. The transports at Durban are preparing to proceed to Australia. Cyclists Doing Good Service. Received this day, at 8 43 a.m. London, January 15. Two hundred raiders at Damslaagte attacked a convoy, but were repulsed. Eustcnberg lias been provisioned after the garrison had been short of rations for a month. The Cape cyclist corps arc fighting like mounted infantry. They are a most useful force. Gallant Action by a Small Body of British. A Weil-mounted Boer Commando. Seventy-two British Soldiers missing. London, January 15. A Kaffir led the Boers to the entrance in the wire entanglements round Zuarfontein. Nino hundred suspects have been arrested at Yryborg and have been removed to Kimberley. Dtlislo with a strong column including the New South Wales mounted, have arrived at Biquetbcrg via Sutherland. Many destitute foreigners from the Transvaal are appealing to the Durban Police for food and timber. Their respective consuls decline to help them. White, on the third sent Laing with 150 of Kitcheners Bodyguard to bo attached to Knox’s column towards Reitz. While they were ascending the valley they experienced showers of explosive bul'ets from the kopjes six hundred yards on the right and left. The Boers numbered a thousand. The British while retiring met fire hundred Boors, They galloped into a donga and fought from cover desperately, Laing was shot through the heart; The enemy surrounding the small force

r laintained a dogged resistance till the Doers threatened "to kill tho survivors. Lieut Bateson galloped through the Doors and informed White that reinforcements wore needed, he sent them and t icy shelled tho disappearing enemy killing seventeen at one spot. Fifteen thousand time expired British soldiers have been detained in India owing to the suspension of reliefs due to South Africa. It is estimated that there arc two thousand Boors between Clanwilliam and Sutherland, Another Commando is advancing from Beaufort West. All aro splendidly mounted with plenty of spare horses, and arc extremely bitter at the refusal of tho Capo Dutch to raise a rebellion after the engagement at Belfast on the 7th. Seventy two men belonging to the Royal Irish and Shropshires arc missing. A determined attack was made on a convoy proceeding from Vryhcid. The Boers were repulsed. At Blood River the Boors arc raiding farms five miles from Johannesburg. Roberts has indefinitely postponed the reception of the Freedom of London owing to the unhappy circumstances of the war.