THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 364, 14 March 1902, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, March 12. De Wet’s captured cave contained forty waggon-loads of ammunition, consisting of Krupp, pompom, and Nordeufeldt charges, and half a million sheaves oi wheat. Dclarey captured at Twebosch much clothing, rides, and artillery ammunition. Lady Methuen, on reaching Madeira homewards, heard of the disaster, and returns to South Africa. A commission in the Yeomanry, with the temporary rank of lieutenant of the army, has been granted to 11. Scott, late sergeant in the New Zealand Yolun teers. The casualty to Lord Methuen’s force has not affected South African stocks on the Paris market. Count Richtthofen admitted that the Anglophobic sentiments were inspired only in regard to German interests.

TWE EBOSCH 1)1 SASTER

PARTIAL CASUALTY LISTS

01 KILLED, 118 WOUNDED, AND 200 MISSING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh'. LONDON, Mar. 13. The partial casualty lists that have been prepared concerning the Tweeboseh disaster show :... Killed—Four officers and sixty men. Wounded—Ten officers and 108 men Missing—Two hundred..

DE WET AND STEYN

FORCES CROSS THE RAILWAY LINE.

COLUMNS ALMOST IN TOUCH.

By Tehgraph—Press Association—CopyrigL: London, March 13.

Advices from Heilbron state that De Wet and Steyn on tho night of the 9th crossed the railway northwards of Wolvehok, going westward. The columns are almost in touch. The Boer commandant at Odendal, Captain Vander Molt, was killed in a skirmish at Piaston.

THE VREDE FIGHT.

GALLANT NEW ZEALANDERS,

REASONS FOR BOTHA’S ORDERS,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh London, March 13.

Reuter gives details of tho Vredo fight. The Boers twice tried unsuccessfully to rush through tho Queensland Bushmen’s outpost line. Then, led by DeWet, they attacked the New Zealanders. Wessels and Maine Botha rushed the left post, killing five and wounding six. Then they worked along the Hank, and captured the post, after the men forming the posts on tho right fiank had fallen back on Rimiugton’s column, his pom-pom servers being killed; then two of the New Zealanders, under a heavy fire, wheoled the pom-pom down a gully, and overturned it, thus saving it from capture. Lord Kitchener, addressing tho New Zealanders, praised their gallant resistance against overwhelming odds. The Standard’s Brussels correspondent states that Botha’s move southwards, and his ordering Delarey to advance, was done to divert attention from De Wet, and it was intended to enable the latter to reorganise. If Botha was attacked by a superior force he was to enter Swaziland under a secret treaty.