HOW THE BOERS FIGHT.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 November 1901, Page 4

HOW THE BOERS FIGHT.

The London Daily Telegraph contains a long telegram from Mr Bennet Burleigh, its special correspondent at the front, giving an account of the wrecking of a train at W aterval last Saturday. The train contained, besides an escort of officers and men, two ladies, with their children, and nurse named Page. While the train was going slowly through a cutting a signal was given by a native and two mines were exploded. At the same time a heavy fire was opened on the carriages and trucks by a body of Boers numbering about one hundred. The Boers soon entered the train, and Colonel Vaudeleur, a most excellent officer, was at once shot. Though the ladies begged the Boers not to fire on the women and children, a Boer deliberately raised his rifle and shot Nurse Page, whom he appeared to know. Nurse Page, however, though badly wounded, is still alive. The Boers then looted the train of all valuables. It is not necessary to characterise this outrage for which there can be no excuse. The wrecking of the trains with ordinary passengers on board is bad enough, but may be explained, but the murder of women is pure brutality.' It appears that the attack was planned and carried out by Hinton, the notorious trainwrecker. If the Boers imagine that their chances of getting the terms which Kruger declares will alone satisfy them are improved by such incidents, they arc very much mistaken.