LIEUT.-GENERAL GATACRE'S AREA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 54, 17 March 1900, Page 3

LIEUT.-GENERAL GATACRE'S AREA.

• BOMBARDING BOERS ACROSS THE OHANGB IUVEK. CLEMENTS AND GATACRE JOIN - FORCES. JIAHY rebels surrender. Received 16; 9.15 a.m. London, March 15. ■ i .Twenty-eight guns are bombarding the Boers across the Orange River, near Norval'a Pont. Geneial Clements' patrols have joined hands with those of Ooneral Gatacre at Burghersdrop, a few miles north of stormbeigTwo hundred and sixty rebels at Dordrecht have surrerdered, giving up ymny arms, which were marked Transvaal. BOEBS EXPELLED F.SOM BETHULIE. THEY BETREAT NORTHWARDS. ■ (Received 17,117 a.m.) London, March 16. General Gatacre, wbh four thousand K men, at Bethulie, excelled the Boers, who are retreating northwards. ■ Cotonel Pole-Carew, with two thousHr and Guards and two guns, mounted, | entrained at Bloemfontein and passed ft Bethany unopposed. Genera's Jones, Gf.tacre, and Clenvents, the latter with eight thousand, H General Brabant with three thousand, an 4 General Hunter Weston with ten Engineers, traversed the Boer lines during thp night, and cut the telegraph wul exploded the railway north pf

Bloemfontein, thus frustrating the arrival of Joubert with three thousand reinforcements. Joubert is now at Brandfort. j BRAVE BRITISH OFFICERS. (Received 17, 1.30 a.m.) London, March 16. ■ In connection with General Gatacre's advance to Bethulie, the British officers faced the enemy daringly, and removed connecting wires, thus rendering mines placed under the Bethulie waggon bridge abortive. ' Captain Grant, of the Engineers, extracted explosives from holes in the Bethulie bridge, Major Sha«v, Lieut, Popham, and some Derbyshire heroes removing the wires. The New South Wales Ambulance meanwhile showed great gallantry during the shelling. On Monday the Guards marched 22 hours continuously, and then had two i and a half hours' sleep. Forty thousand men were moved and fed like clockwork, and 18,000 horses were also attended to.