THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 July 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

I"BY FDKGTEIC TELEGR VPH. —COPYRIGHT

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION)

London, July 8.

The !oi : : wing aru further details of the at'aek on Iho blockhouses at Brui-pruU ou Juno 26ih :-200 of Ben Vi joen’s commando attempted to cross the Delagoa Bay railway northwards. Ono of the blockhouses fell into the hands of the enemy, but the others held out.

An explosion partly derailed the armoured train coming to the assistance of the British, and the Boers, thinking the train wrecked, attempted to rush it, and encountered at a distance of ton yards a terrific case-shot fire. They thereupon withdrew. ■ . 2000 refugees were orought to -c.cu.nbu:‘g in a fortnight. Eeuter’s agency reports that a squadron of Eemington’s Guides routed Ackerman’s commando at Brakfontoin, and Aoktrraan was wounded in the shoulder. Lieut-Col. Remington next attacked Pretorious’s commando, 1200 strong, at Kootzepoort, and after a twenty minutes fitdit at close quarters amongst rocks and bushes, during which several Boers were wounded, Pretorius being shot in the eye. The enemy fled. Five British columns in seven weeks cleared the banks of the Orange River, capturing 127 Boers, including several leaders, 92 rifles, 18,000 sheep, 7000 cattle, 5000 horses, and also collected 1200 refugees. Additional ten Gordon Highlanders were wounded by the wrecking or the train at Naboomspruit,

Three of the Marquis of Tullebardine’s Scottish Horse were killed and 9 wounded at Blaudshoek on the 3rd,

The Standards states that Commandant Viljeon and 400 men have broken across to Delagoa Bay northward and are now at BGlarmino.

General Botha has returned towards Erme'.o.

The Daily Mail publishes a letter signed “Edger Wallace,” embodying a sensational 1 narrative of an (apparently an officer) of the battle of Vlakfontoin. This eyewitness alleges that he saw two of Commandant Kemp’s Boers deliberately shooting ths wounded, four of whom were filled. They included a Sergeant slightly-wounded, and an officer to whom the Sergeant was offering water.