THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 August 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

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London, August 19. Commandant Baclenkorst’s doctor, fetcliing medical necessaries from Kimberley, declined to carry Lord Kitchener’s proclamation, fearing that ho might be shot.

Scheeper’s commando is dangerously isolated in the south of Cape Colony. Gorringe on the 13th killed 20 Boers and captured Kruitzinger’s secretary and a quantity of documents. The Daily News says that the resistance in the Orange River Colony has ended. The Boers are inclined in the last extremity to become desperate. There arc 91,010 whites, 24,547 colored people in the refugee camps.

During July the deaths among the “whites number 1,412, largely the victims of measles.

A commando 150 strong wrecked a section of the Mafeking railway. An armoured train came into action and escor:ed the down mail train back.

In Kruitzinger's commando many are short of horses. He has re-crossed the Orange River, The British columns are pursuing him. Remington’s Yeomanry have daily encounters with the enemy. Five hundred Boers in the Fauresmith district, amongst whom are several women on horseback, are collecting horses.

The South African campaigners, including the colonials, have established an Imperial service in London.