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Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1900, Page 2

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THE PLAN THAT FAIL^D.J^

To Cronje is persistently attributed a preconcerted plan, part of wjiidi was that the British attention wiUs to be occupied with a view to the concentration of the Boer forces to protect the approaches to Bloemfontom and Pretoria.

THE BENEWED FIGHTING;

The recrudescence of the fighting on the Tugela is interpreted to mean that the Boer plan of campaign hast partially collapsed. . v ■:• .

The prisoners captured at Koodoosrand describe General dronje's resistance as murder for his own men.

LADYSMITH. The Boers claim that the Eraielo and Middleburg commandos repulsed,? 4 "; the attacking force 'under Generjjb Buller on Thursday, the British sui-^ faring heavy loss.

General Buller reports that owing to the continuous fighting it is impossible at present to give a_ list of the casualties sustained by the rank and file.

Three of General Buller's officers *li were killed in the engagement at Pieters on Thursday, including Lieut.. Hon. Reginald Cathcart, fourth son of the Earl of Cathcart. MajorGeneral A. S. Wynne and 13 other officers were wounded.

Although the Dundee road is * covered for miles with Boer waggons trekking northwards from Ladysmith, there has been no general retirement of the besiege^, and Ladysmith is still closely invested.

AWFUL BOER LOSSES. A letter from General Joubert, found at Inhlangawani Hill, statei that three thousand Boers wm© disabled at Spionkop. ! % The Boers opposing General Btal* ler's advance to the relief of Ladysmith are tenaciously defending din extremely strong position at Grobler's ! Kloof. i After a tremendous cannonade by the British, the Fifth Brigade, under Major-General Hart, who are opei^tingonthe west of Ladysmith', on Friday slowly fought their way wiij|.~ ':•■; in two hundred yards of the fifisli : Boer entrenchments, where they ty* ' vouacked for the nigh,t. ; FOREIGN RECRUimj^RTHB; BOERS. The steamer Admiral landed &i Delagoa Bay one hundred Genn*nre- ; cruits for the Transvaal. „'; : The steamer Germonde also landed 150 recruits for the Transvaal pf ; many nationalities. /»'"^ J CAPTURE OF FOREIGN OFFICERS. :jLord Roberts has captured Count Sternberg, an Austrian general. Baron Von Dam, a German and chief of the Boer artillery, has beeia captured by General Buller. i ;