The Transvaal.

Manawatu Herald, 8 September 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

AN UNAVAILING PROTEST. President Kruger has protested to Lord Salisbury and the Powers against Lord Roberts's annexation of the Transvaal. BOTH V 3 STAND AL LYDENBURG. General Botha's position overlooking Lydenburg is compared with the position formerly held' by the Boers at Laing's Nek. The Boers are maintaining a continual fire with ten guns, tut the fire is not effective. The British losses have been few. The enemy are making a fierce stand in the hills They hold lofty headlands enclosing a valley, and the Boers guns cover the only British road northward. PLUMER AGAIN SUCCESSFUL. Colonel Plumer defeated the Boers on nnday at Warm Baths. The fighting occurred in impassable bush country. Twenty-four Boers, twelve waggons with supplies, and rrtany cattle and sheep were captured by j the British. Five Tasmanians were wounded in the action fought by Colonel Plumer at Rocikop, two of them severely. j A SEVERE SKIRMISH. A severe skirmish took place on Friday at Kwaggasfontein between a Boer commando and a force of Kaffrarian Kifles. Five of the latter were killed and nineteen wounded. THE SIEGE OF LADYBRAND. Ladybrand was still holding out on Tuesday afternoon. The garrison numbers 350, and the besiegers 8000. REPORTED DEATH OF DE LA REV. It is persistent'y reported that Commandant De la Rey has succumbed to wounds received in action at Elands river, where Colonel Hoare's troops successfully resisted a superior force of Boers about three weeks ago. BOER RAIDERS. The Boers derailed a train on the Pietersburg line, north of Pretoria, with the result that some soldiers of the West Riding Regiment were injured. Five thousand sheep, 800 cattle, 50 horses, and several waggons were I taken by the Boers during the recen 1 1

raid at Klip river, when Theron's scouts captured a British supply train. The raiders fired a volley as the enginedriver and seven others were in the act of surrendering.

Eleven Boers were killed in the subsequent action, in which General Brabant recaptured the prisoners.