BOER WAR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 21, 22 January 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR

BOBR OUTPOST OAPTURHI^^H BRITISH TRAIN CAPTU||d BALMORAL [PUB PUUB3 ASSOCIAInt V Received 2), 9 a.B». Ii>SOON, January 20ifl Three squadrons of the JohanaesbuTH Mounted Hides captured a Boorout poJ| at Spriiign terminus, Eist ltind railway] lino. A etron;; Jiaer force subsequently] m;ule a strung attack, but were repulsed. Sixty-eoven of the Aberdeen Dutch) have jiined the raiders. (Received 21, 9.30 a.m.) London, January 20t The Biers raptured a British train at Eist Balmoral laden wiuh mining unterial for the Band. The troopship Canada has aailed for tlio Capo with 1300 regular* and 520 recruits for Baden Powell's police. A MISHAP WITH A TRAP MINK, AN OFFICER AND CORPORAL KILLBD. (Received 22, 0.45 aj»> I Losdon, Jtaxwry 21, While covering with, gram a trap mine worked oa a love) with the earth near Zeerust, the weight preiwd too heavily on the lever used to fix the charge, which exploded, killing Lieut. Wftlhce, North Lancashire Regiment). wd Corporal Edwards, New Zealand* Artillery.

AHRKST OF REBELS. j NATIVE SCOUTS CAI'TUBMr HOUSES, ; lIHIM ZOG ANXIOUS AfSOO'T DB LARKY. RIFLES HAMIwKf) IN AT CARNARVON. i KIIUiTZINGRII BOKIIS BEPOLSSD, ! Received 21, 0.45 * m , | Londom, January 21. , El vrn fu-mora were arrested an<f brought to Crtu&rk for drilling and inviting the invadcit), NMve scouts c «ptured 400 hems at. Iv Jvchcep. I Ho , r, "S Calvinia anzfously wfor Dd Lilly's Whereabouts > S, v,n hundred r.ifs were haod«itothe nit liontiuH ( 4 t! Carnarvon. -v , TilH Voivn and detachment* off' ut Willown »ore repelletl I 400 Iviuitzinger Boers. !*"•■» | (Received 22, 1.12 (us.) J f .. . v January 12", lh, following New wh» finrv, d in regiuituts rai-od in South A fn< a, h ivo returned by the D»maw!Ugp K : ;; i,l , l ' nn ' Geal, y' Park *. Henderaoni 1 dlttt, Thompson, and Keogh. > . Wklungtox, January 21 : l.t i . rscoitunrd that there #.« ion J v.ici'.in:" s in the present Contingent* m 1 South Africa, d.vided as follows .!! J Si>ond .nhngnnt, 80; Third fi'a . 1 V ; il; Fifth, 26. Thel in camp u.o being given the option «f J E;° >o,u " 8lU »» u »B.»ua^|

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