THE BOER WAR.
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[Pkk P::kss Association.]
London, April 29.
Kcid's quick, close fire into the Boer laager deceived the enemy as to the number of the attacking force, and Commandant Sehroeder used a Maxim, but soon surrendered. Meanwhile Markham's New Zealanders arrived and helped te prevent the enemy communicating with other commandos.
A Keuter message states that tho surrenders to Col. Plumer include cx-Land-drost Munnik, a great inciter of the Capo Dutch, also his son.
25 of the Prince of Wales Light Horse kept 400 Boers at bay for eight hours, 15 miles from Kroonstad, killing 14 Boers. After the Light Horse ammunition was exhausted they were captured, but subsequently relea-jed. Scalkburger and the government have fled to Deydsdorp. Seventeen of Kmitzinger's commando looted a farm in Vadock district, and sprinkled strychnine in the food which 2;iisy were unable to remove.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 April 1901, Page 4
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144THE BOER WAR. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 April 1901, Page 4
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