THE WAR.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222054, 22 February 1900, Page 2

THE WAR.

GENERAL BULLER’S ARMY TWO POSITIONS CAPTURED London,. February 19. General Buller has captured and established headquarters at Hussar, and has also captured Cingolo Hill, eastward of Inli’awe, after, lydditing and inflicting severs havoc on the Boers;. The British casualties were few. Later. After the capture of Cingolo Hill General Buller on Sunday drove tie Boers from a strong posi'inn at Monte Christo and across the Tugela after a heavy fight, capturing several camps, waggons, stores and. ammunition.. The British casualties: wore not heavy. Ladysmity reports there are indications that the Bbers are abandoning thoir laagers. ' MORE FIGHTING. AT IREIT • RIVER. London, February 19. General Iv'elly-Kenny has now capture 1 150 Boer wagg«>us.. The loot included thousands of stock,.biscnit b.»xos filled with ammu nition addressed ‘ Pretoria, via Delago. Bay.’ The British casualties- in- relieving Kimberley were fifty. When Lord Methuen occupied Magersfontein there were many, indications that it:had been!abandoned in a panic. Cooked dinners- were found un , touched Great quantities of stores were captured. . The position was marvellously fortified and impregnable. The Daily News correspondent declares that the Boers did not remove the heavy guns, but the statement needs confirming. The- residen s of- Jacobsdal were amazed that tlie British, instead of looting the town, distributed army stores-among the inhabitants. The Daily. Mail correspondent, who was present during the fight at Rsit River, between the Boer- commando from Ronsberg and the British- detachment, which was escorting; two hundred waggons, states, that the waggons were saved by the arrival of British reinforcements. BRAVE VICTORIANS. THEV PAY IN BLOOD., ATT ACKEDBY OVERWHELMING NUMBERS. DRAGOONS BREAK THROUGH. MOUNTED INFANTRY PERISH. WITH BAYONETS FIXED AND BLOODSTAINED. London, Feb. 20. A troop of Inniskilling Dragoons and Victorian-Mounted Rifles defended a kopje west of Bastard’s Nek, Colosburg district, until the enemy opened upon them with a forty, pounder. Then they took up- a position at Hopkirk’s farm, which was tenaciously defended, the British numbering hundreds against thousands of Boers. Eventually -he Inniskillings charged through five hundred of the-enemy and managed to escape,, after inflicting heavy L ss. The ‘ Times ’ correspondent states that the Victorians, seeing the Boers on the kopje, charged, were entrapped and all were found dead, with bayonets fixed ami blood stained. The ‘ Times’ says that the devotion of the Victorians in dying to a man, fighting to the Last,, will always elicit admiration, drawing closer the ties of Empire. THE, OCCUPATION OF DORDRECHT. BRABBANT MARCHES INIO THE VELDT. A MIDNIGHT CHARGEBRITISH CASUALTIES FFW Biigadier Brabant’s column left Penholk, crossed tho trackless- veldt, and bivouacked in the heart of the rebel coum ry in Northern Cape Colony. He fought all Friday,, dismantling a Boer fifteen pounder at Dordrecht At midnight Captain Flanagan led a charge, capturing th 0 Boer laager at the point of the bayonet, and taking much forage and' a number of prison er.°. General Brabant occupied Dordrecht on Sunday, and pursued the retreating enemy.. Tho British casualties were seven killed and eight wounded. The Boers claim to- have captured 142 of the Wiltshire regiment when the British retired to Arunde',. inelud--ing 4-4 wounded.