THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 September 1901, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

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Further Capture of Boers.

/ f " The Almighty Dollar with Kruger’s ~<i Son.

London, September 17. The Distinguished Service medal was conferred on Private Sweeney, of the Fifth Queensland Bushmen. . . - September 18. Broeckmas’s trial is concluded, but the result is not published, awaiting Lord Kitchener's decision.

The Boers attacked Belfast on the 15th but were repulsed.

Lord Kitchener’s weekly report is as follows :—47 Boers killed,' 7 wounded, 371 taken prisoners, and 134 surrendered; 236 rifles, 23,750 rounds, of ammunition, 164 wagons, 5,400 horses, and 5,750 cattle | were captured. <■ Brigadier-General Plumer and MajorGeneral Sir Charles Knox are pushing the enemy in the Orange Colony, All the Transvaal columns are refitting. Eighty-four Boer prisoners were taken at 'Bustenherg and further surrenders are reported in the Vaal River and Losberg districts. Received this day, at 9 14 a.ta. London, September 18. The Boers wounded a woman and two children in a refugee camp. Colonel Benson surprised a laager on the 11th, capturing 31 prisoners,

Brigadier-General Kekewich captured 86 Boers, including Field Cornet Klupper in Mageesberg.

Major-General Gilbert Hamilton, after 80 miles ride, captured 25 Boers west of Sohroonspruit with 140 remounts, A South African war correspondent attending the Danzig manoeuvres describes the scouting of the Germans as greatly inferior to tne British.

Kitchener warmly supports the appeal for Christmas comforts to the troops in South Africa.

A party of Mennes' scouts following fifty Boers at Platrand were surrounded by two hundred, but _ they charged through, losing two killed and four wounded, and killing and wounding eight.

Kruger’s youngest son Tgaard surrendered in order to secure the safety of the farm his father ceded to him.