THE BOER WAR.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.]
(per press association.)
French's Sweap of Transyaal.
Received this day, at 8 24 a m. London, March 27. (J„neral French with Majnr-Goneral Dartncli's Column, arrived at Vryheid. S nee French commenced the sweeping movement in Eastern Transvaal, twelve hundred Boers havo been killed, wounded, and captured; seven guns, a thousand rifles, 22(!,000 horses, cattle and sheep, and 1,800 wagons have been captured. Lieuts. H. Banks and H. Collettof New Zealand, and J. C.Campbell a Westralian, have been accepted a 3 Commissioners in the Royal Artillery. Sir Edward Clarke, who last year resigned his seat in the House of Commons owing to his constituents censuring him for pro-Boer utterances, now states that the Boers rejection ot the generous terms has altered circumstances, and he hoped the war would be carried to a complete early termination.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 March 1901, Page 3
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141THE BOER WAR. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 March 1901, Page 3
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