THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 January 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

(by ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.)

(per press association.)

Melbourne, January 17. Arrived, Damascus with 42 invalided soldiers for Australia under Major Madocks of New Zealand. London, January 17. Danial Clark, a Now Zealand Rider, was killed at Klorksdorp. Y Do Wet has re-crossed the Yaal River and Joined the Transvaal Commandoes. The Government of Pretoria have prohibited civilians wearing khaki. Anyone wearing a costume resembling the British uniform is liable to arrest and punishment. Received this day at 8 50 a.m. London, January 17. Lieutenant A. C. Doxat, ol : the Imperial Yeomanry, a stock broker, and son of Edmund Doxat, Chairman of Dalgety Company, was awarded the Victoria Cross for returning under heavy tire to rescue a trooper who had lost his horse during an engagement at Zccrust. Running Hard upon the Boer. Kitchener’s Scouts well provided for. Received this day at 8 51) a.m. London, January 17. The Boors sustained sixty casualties ah Znurfontein and Kaalfontcin, and ran short of food and ammunition. Ten thousand Capetown Guards have been enrolled. It is expected that Herzog will attack Hex River Pass, which is strongly held. ' Commandant Beyer with twelve hundred men and live guns continue treking north-east. Since the defeat at Krngcrsdorp a big concentration movement is in progress in Bethel and Ermclo districts. A hundred Boers looted Southland and retreated northwards. Each of Kitchener’s fighting scouts have been provided with two spare horses. There arc a- hundred Matabcle riding or leading for them. Kitchener lias transferred twenty thousand troops southward.