BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 42, 26 February 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

XITCII KNKK'rf REPKISSSIVJC MEASURES ESTIMATED BOER LOSBKB. [l'EB PRESS ASSOCIATION. (Received 25, 9.6 a.m.) London, February 24. The Imperial Government support* the proclamation issaed by Lord Kitchener prohib.ting the circulation of and bjolu calculated to encourage the Boers continuing r»> i-is'.aiico. It is estimated that the Boers lost 1000 killed, wounded, and prisoners during January, over 200 dead being actually co unted. The losses in February up to the present are estimated at 800. A military tribunal at Johannesburg sentenced two burghers whe wars captured while attempting to enter Johannesburg to be shot for espionage. An flxplosion on the track stopped a mail train from Natal to Johannesburg, near Heidelberg, on the 20th. Three hundred lioera in hiding fired on tba train and wounded fire of the patsen* ger.». Troops arrived and repulsed the ocemy. PRO-BOER TACTIOS. (Reaelved 25, 9.5 a.m.) London, February 24. Lieut. Morrisoß, of the Canadian Artillery, declares that the New York bun garbled bis letters from the front. Pre-Boer journals in England copied < he garbled accounts, and the Cdnrilia<ion Committee founded by Mr. Leonard Courtney repudiated them. Tho Daily Chronicle'* exposure has lad to the withdrawal of the pro-Beer piinplilet, find the promise to publish Monison'n letter in extense. Casualties in recent engagements include the following: Severely wounded: Lieut.. Mann, Sergeant Bobs, Private Gurbide, Davis, Siddle, and Stevens, of tbe Victorian Bushmen; Privates Strickland, fiolisto, of the Wit tr ilian Bushmen; Private Bourke, New SSoush Wales Bushmen; and Coi por .l Mayne, Queensland Mounted Infantry. RIKTRKTIKF OCCUPIED. DISOUU.iNISKD KKTRKA.T OF BOERS. LIST OF LO3SKB. KKI'OKTKD FLIGHT OF DH WET. Hocvivmt 10 20 p.m. I.OM«e.\, K-oniat y 21>. Uouh-al Freuo.!! n posts that on ' .i "':. 1 * Iv oi\ u.-'ioii Lfj-iretief Ji- >. j-s :.i\> ■.:.■[ ,i.g the Swaziland :.;htKT. Five t'l-vu, k*o ratrcaMng ;.t:Catti W1 cnrtiif, Pur. wit u much iittuijjsrttd by tii« cok«

tiffiivil* Wavy rains. The following is a Hat of losses Inflicted to 16th: - 282. _4w Boo™ killed in action, prisoner, 183 surrendered; a £fteem pounder, 462 rifles, 160.000 rounds of small ammunition, 3500 horses, 74 mules, 3530 trek oxen, 18,700 cattle, 155,400 sheep, 1070 wagons and carts were captnred; 5 British officers and 41 men were killed, 4 officers and 108 men wounded. Lord Kitchener a'ates Da Wet's invasion of Cape Coleny has completely failed. Router's correspondent states it is reported at Capetown that after *he engagement at Diseilfontoin, De Wet crossed the Orange River in a boat, fleeing with a handful of followers.

CAPTURE OF OAITUC, IMPHRUL YfIOMANRY OAFTUBB A POST. A STUBBORN KKBIBTANOB. (Received 2S, 10.44 p.m.) London, February 25. Lord Methuen captured at Brakpan 1300 cattle and 1000 sheep. A party of Imperial Yeomanry surprised end captured a Boer post at Bethlehem, bayoneting lire. The Boars stubbornly defended for six hours a strongly fortified position at Hartbeeslefontein, extending for ten miles. There was much fighting at close range, the Boeri only retiring when both flanks were turned. All their cattle were captured. One white child died of plague at Capetown, and three others are i»gThe War Office is raising from the Infantry Reserve Battalions a regiment for eolely ganison duty in the Mediterranean and other non-tropical stations. OARUBX OF DB WBT'I GUNS. BOXBS IK FULL BBIBIAT, VIGOBOUS PUBSUIT. FLIGHT OF STUB AMD DS WIT. •CHBIB FOLLOWERS LOT TO SHIFT FOB TXBMSBLYEB. Received 86, 0 JO bjd. Lenox, February 25. Colonel Flumer reports that Colonel Owen, with detachments of the King's Dragoons, Victorian Imperial Bushmen, and Imperial Light Homo, on Saturday captured De Wet's fifteen pounder and pompoms. The Boers are in fall retreat and dispersing, bat are being vigorously pursued. Fifty prisoners, some cirts, and Ammunition were captund. There Were no British casualties. Other repoits state that De Wet on Friday thrice failed in attempts to cross the Brak and Orange Rivers. Col. flumer on Saturday chased him from Kameldrift towards Hopetowa. Fancying the British were exhausted Do Wet laagered in the evening, and then Col. Owen charged, capturing the demy's artillery. The Boers fled leaving their horses saddlid and their cooking pots full. » -Mr. Bennett Burleigh states tbat Col. Owen also captured a Maxim, The Beers scattered in small bedies. . Do Wet's party is reduced to three lundred. Steyn told the Boers, many of whom were dismounted and sheeles*, to shift the Ivjit they could and return to tbe Onite i&iver Colony. btsyn and De Wet took hundn« I c.' iiiu hest hoi sea and crossed the S jlroad at Krackuil, 60 miles north of Do Aar, early on Sunday, going eastward. Col. Thorneycro't and others with fresh horses are cloesly pursuing thu fugitives. ENTERTAINING RETURNIG Canadians. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH. Beceived 26, 0.37 a.m. London, February 25. Lord Strathcooa entertained the officers of Stra'hcona's Hors°, who are en route returning to Canada. Lord Roberts, General Buller, Lord Landsdown. and Mr. Chamberlain were present.

Mr. Chamberlain, ic the course of a speech, said the colenids volunteering for active service bad had an enorwous'y far reaching result. It was difficult to limit the number of colonials billing to serve. While the Empire had such Moble sons it could defy thv four corners of the r&rtb.

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