THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 March 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

[by ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] Sydney, March 15. The first portion of the Imperial contingent, about 1000 officers, men and horses, marched through the streets and boarded the troopships Custodian and Maplemorc. Owing to the incessant rain since last night there was very little demonstration in the streets. They sail for the Cape to-morrow. London, March 15. Repeated attempts were made by small commandos to break north through the British lines between Bloemfontein and Thabanchu, but they were repulsed with loss.

Kruitzinger forced a passage toLecuwdrift, foiling De Lisle’s plan to jamb the Boers in a fork of the Great Fish and Koonap Livers. Commandant Do Jager, a noted Natal rebel, was sentenced _to five years imprisonment, and a line of £5,000 for treason and looting. Two of De Wet’s chief scouts were captured, also 1000 cattle and horses. The Boers shot two British prisoners at Walmaranstad, also three burghers for refusing to light. De la Lay ordered their execution in revenge for their defeat at Hartebeestefoiitein,

General Methuen captured Commandant Pcerson, who is largely responsible for the tragedy. The New York Sun has apologised for the grabled accounts published, by it some time ago of the letters written hy Lieutenant Morrison, of the Canadian Contingent, describing British atrocities in South Africa. The Sun has dismissed the author of the garbled accounts, who is its Ottawa correspondent.