BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 214, 3 November 1900, Page 3

BOER WAR.

| DETAILS OF ATTACK ON JACOBBDAL BOSS TREACHERY AND HIGHLANDERS PLUCK. ran nrass absooiatiok. Received 2, 8.12 a.m. Lokdov, November 1. Further details of the attack on Jaeobsd&l show that the inhabitants admitted forty Boers during the night into homes commanding the square where the garrison, nf Capetown Volunteers and Highlanders lay. At dayloeak the Boers opened fire, killing tight of the men while asleep, and nang explomvebullets, Theremainder of the Highlanders abandoned the *l*are, but were unaUo to reach their r^* B " % concealed till the afternoon, when'six of them tried to neorer their arms, but all of them were shot. Only five out of the 34 were unrounded.

A large commando outside Jacobsdal retreated when British reinforcements npproaohed, EMBARGO ON TRANSVAAL GOLD. THIRTY CHESTS CONTAINING £IOO,OOO. LARGS CAPTURE OF BOER CATTLE. DI WETS CRUELTY. A BRITISH OUTPOST CAPTURED AND A KAIL TRAIN LOOTED.. IKXIRMIKT OT PMNOS CHRITTIAN. (Beoeived 2, 8.41 ajm.) Londoh, November 1, At tkeinatanoeof Great Britain, the High Court at Hamburg has placed an embargo on thirty chests of Transvaal bar gold, valued at £IOO,OOO, now aboard the Genua-Africa steamer Budwrath. Received 2, 9.56 aja. Lohdos, November 1. . Commandant General Botha has occupied Warm Baths, north of Pretoria. The Boers, with a convoy of cattle, attacked Colonel Paget at Pianaars Biver, Colonel Paget vigorously responded, and iniioted considerable loss M theenemy, capturing 26 Boers, and 20,00(1 cattle. The British have captured atoek in «ae week valued at £500,000. Commandant De Wet is sjamboking and shooting bothers who are showing unwillingness to fight.

After oapturing a British outpost, numbering 90, near Geneva, a party of 160 JBmtb held op the Gape Town nail, ejected the passengers, crammed thair saddle-hags with loot, horned the mils, and fired the train. An arMired train approaching, the Boers m, relinquishing the 90 prisoners. Twelve Boers were captured, and the firjl in the train extinguished. General Hunter has bnraed mere fsnut in the Buthaville district. Quantities of ammunition concealed in the roofs exploded. . The cavalry captured sixty Boers in r the vicinity.

Prince Ohristian was interred at j^ntaria, "IkoBD KITCHENER'S FARJWBLL vADDBSSS TO THE AUSTRALIANS. Received 2,9.31 p.m. Lohdos, November 2. One-fifth of the soldiers of thn Australian Contingents are returning owing to pressing business. Lord Kitchener, at Pretoria, when farawelling the Australians remarked: " Lord Roberts has seen your offieers, tilt was unable personally to express his high appreciation of the splendid amice yen rendered throughout the «impaign, enduringgreat hardships, and B aldng great sacrifices. It is a source eI the utmost satisfaction that Lord Roberts has heard from your commands ns that you have invariably shown yo arselvee more than equal to the calls mitde upon you. The magnificent jspirit and fighting qualities displayed by yeu has celled forth the admiration «f all your associates in arms, The . ws ris lasting longer than anticipated, an i Lord Roberts recognised the serious /~\j| onvenience which would result from K further absence of those having business. We are sorry to '' you, yet glad to be able to allow to go, though there is still much fSrk to he done in the field before our tlk is completed. In the name of TBrd Roberts, and on behalf ef your jjlvades, I thank you all and wish you ftftearty good-bye."