BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 18, 19 January 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

BOEIt CASUALTIES AT ZUUBFONTEIfI MOVEMENTS OF OOMMANDOS. LOOTING AT SUTHERLAND. , _ 20,000 TROOPS SENT SOUTH, AWARD OF A V. C. ~ . [PBS PRESS ASSOCIATION.] • - Heaoived 18,>8.6!) a.m. ' London January 15. ' The Beers sustain d bixty cisudtiet at Zuurfontein. , Kaalfoutoin ran short of food and ammunition, ; Ten tfaousitid Capetown Guards have been enrolled.

"It is expected that Commandant Hertzog will attack the Hex Rivet 3 pass, which is strongly held/ ■ } .Commandant Beyer, with twelve hundred ifien and five gun®, continues trekking north-east. Since their defeat at Krugersdorp a big conceotration movnmnat is in progress the Boora in Bethel and Ermelo dist(ictß. A hundred Baers looted Sutherland and retreated northwards. Each of L >rd ' Kitchener's figh'iop scouts has. been pi ovidod wif.li t.wo spate.boraes r whieh a hundred MataVle are riding or leading for them. L->rd KitchensrhaS transferred 20,009 troops southward. Lieutenant A. C, Doxat, of the Im perial-¥eom»Bry r astoek-brok6P-,-Boni-f . JUCr.. E.lmuiid Doxat, Chairman of ,Cr<J- a ? for ..returning under heavy fire to refcne a«troopsr who lost %i#''h6rßo during 'xhe' engagement at .Zeeru&t. ■.. ; ' . )•: ' (Received, 18j 9.416.1 D.) I »■ >- ■ Melboubwb,■ Jannary 18, Orange and, Scott,. Naw, are - _ j , pdi'OSOliSO ATi" . CENTRES. .... j , t LARQB 30SR FORCE AT CAROLINA. DBFBAT QF. THE ENEMY AT' ' VANTONDEBSHOK., j''

ABERDEEN LOOTED. : PEACE DELEGATE ARRESTED EOR TREASON. SURRENDER OF A PATROL. ' MARTIAL LAW IN CAPE COLONY. BOTHA EXPECTED TO RAID NATAL; Received 16, 10.40 a.m. London, January 18, "Thd systematic collection of Boer families and etook at conveaient centres is steadily proceeding. Voluntary refugees are given advantages over families whose head is still with a commando. The refugees are mostly acquiescent to the action. Ldrd Kitchener reports three thousand Boers, at .Carolina. Col. Colville's column was engaged at Vantondershok. The Boers were driven ofl' with heavy loss. Three hundred Bajrs looted Aberdeen and retreated on the advance of a hundred British. • Willem • Steyn, peace delegate, deputed to interview the Boers' at Stm-dni-ton was arrested and senttoPiet Retiuf on a charge of treason. * \ A patrol of Prince Alfred's Guards | surrendered near S'eynlmrj/ after two •{•hours' fighting.- 4'bt> men woro. stripped ! and afterwards releusud.

I A commando has appeared at Little : Namaqualand. Residents of the C'apß Peninsula exIcept officials and soldiers, hive -beaS I forbidden to possess arms .or tlmmunijtioa. After February igt; all, tho. colony, except a few < will, be; under martial law. It is intended toiand additions.] naval s «iis jit Capetown. ''" 'J Two of the largest commandos are] stationed at Roosenkal in the nprtbeastl Transvaal, and postern Magliesburg. / fng a rafd'into Natal. " : " '"dAs^triiik^ 1 ' . " f ' Wellington,- Janui&y IS' ,Pri vaia;advioea>rec'pi vid l lii-t Trooper T. Maatin died ofenterilat iYAt'ofia'ori fcVe 4tih'ffist. -J •.r. SIXTH CONTINGENT. I. Welmngios, November rn© Sixth Contingent embarn on the. Cornwall an.Haturdny, 26ti£nst., sailing for. Auckland that day. J .„■/, , Auckhhd, Januarlte. ' At (t meeting of the mittee in connection with the Hl-off to the Sixth Contingent, a uhm|[ woj carrißd by 19 to ll,in favour <A»viding alcoholic refreshments, if Under the supervision of the empittee. RETURNING TROOMM . Wellington, Jaifly 18. A cable message has by the Deputy-Governor Jffng tbat in accordance with the reaflK made to the Admiral on the Austrßpi station, he has given inatructicß^that the Mildura, now at Akaroaftould be at Port Chalmers when thewient arrives with the returned NowSßihnd troops.