THE BOER WAR.
[by blbotbic telegraph.—copyright]
London, May 20. Liebenberg’s commando, chased from Hartebeestefontein, lias trekked north.
Colonel Eawlinson, after an engagement between Brakspruit and Leydsdorp, captured 20 prisoners, 25 wagons with supplies, 18,000 sheep and many oxen and horses.
The Boers with a twelve-pounder Creuzot, two pompoms and a maxim, thrice attacked General Bullock between Emele and Ameersport and made a desperate effort to capture the guns. Louis Botha evacuated Ermelo and retreated to Carolina.
General Bullock removed 40 prisoners, including Commandant Swary, 150 Ermelo refugees’ families, 2,000 cattle and horses to Standerton.
The Ermelo Boers re-occupied Ermelo when Lullock left.
Elliot within a week has sent a large number of refugees and 40,000 horses and cattle to Standerton.
Wellington, May 20. The Premier has received advice from the Governor of Cape Colony that Private Barrar, Fifth Contingent, of Timaru, died of enteric fever at Kimberley on the 14th.
Invehcaegill, May 20. The Premier wires that he will endeavor to arrange for the Fourth and Fifth Contingents to land at the Bluff.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 May 1901, Page 4
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173THE BOER WAR. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 May 1901, Page 4
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