The Transvaal.
OUTPOST FIGHTING. General De Wet is reported as being now posted in a 6trj>ng position at Retief Nek, close to the frontier of Basutoland. British troops are advancing from Natal into Orange River Colony by way of Van Reenen's Pass, presumably to join in the operations against De Wet. Major-General Lord Dundonald, commander of the Third Brigade of Cavalry, hitherto with General Buller in Natal, is now in Orange Rivet Colony. His latest exploit is the capture of the camp of a force of Boers who had destroyed a railway bridge on the main line at Leeuw Spruit, thirty five miles south of the Transvaal boundary. A portion of the Eighth Division (Lieutenant-General Rundle's) has arrived at and occupied Wilkop, a place south-west of Harrismith, the chief town on the railway from Natal through Van Reenen's Pass into the Free State. A picket of twenty-five men of the Yorkshire Regiment was surprised by a force of Boers at Lindley, forty miles east of Kroonstad. The enemy were dressed in khaki, after the style of the British uniforms, and so were able to steal ap to close quarters before their stratagen was detected. The picket fought doggedly until eighteen of the twenty-five men had fallen, either killed or wounded. Reinforcements then arrived, and with their, aid the attacking party was beaten off. KRUGERSDORP. In the engagement at Krugersdorp, twenty miles west of Johannesburg, where Major-General Smith-Dorrien's forces defeated a Boer commando with heavy loss, the casualties on the British side numbered thirty-nine. The Gordon Highlanders and the Artillery were the principal sufferers. BOER PRISONERS. Lord Roberts intends to send his further Boer prisoners to Ceylon, in accordance with the arrangement indicated some time ago.
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Manawatu Herald, 19 July 1900, Page 2
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285The Transvaal. Manawatu Herald, 19 July 1900, Page 2
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