THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 February 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

10,000 Boer Prisoners for India.

Kitchener’s Task More Difficult than in Soudan. [by ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.] (per press association.) London, February 1. Lord Kitchener is anxious to send 10,000 prisoners to the Nilgiri Hills, India.

Major-General Charles Knox engaged Dc Wet at South Welcome on the 29th.

After some hours’ fighting the Boers removed many casualties in carts, leaving five dead on the field.

Two British officers and one private wore killed and one officer and 12 men were wounded. Do Wet on the 30th crossed the Blocmfontein-Ladybrand line at Israelspoort.

General Bruce-Hamilton’s column at Waterworks were unable to intercept him,

General French’s Cavalry and Mounted Infantry are sweeping the country east of the Pretoria-Johannesburg railway between the Delagoa and Natal railways.

At Ermelo they engaged 2,000 of the enemy in a wide valley, but they retired with four killed and nine wouned. One of the British was killed and seven wounded.

Active field operations on a large scale are imminent in South Africa.

Largo numbers of mounteds are employed. The infantry are being moved in mule wagons.

Lord Kitchener, in writing to the Italian Archbishop of Sogara, says “My task is more difficult than that of the Soudan." He denied the gross lies as to British cruelty.

February 2. The raiders at Olifant’s Biver Valley abandoned many horses and carts, and endeavored to retreat through Miriongspoort.

The British repulsing them, occupied the Pass and drove a portion of them to Konga mountains, capturing some, while the remainder retired eastward.

1000 mounted troops have landed a Port Elizabeth.