BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 105, 21 May 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

(By Electkio Tklegiiaph—Coptui«ht.)

MORE CAPTURES BY THffi BRITISH

PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 20, 10.i:i p m. London, May 20. Liebenbtrg's commando has bean chased fom Hartebeestsfontein and has tiekkel north. Co'onel lliwlipson after an cng.gemont be f .waea Biackspniifc and G ysdorp, captured 20 pi isoimrs, 25 waggons of supplies, 18,000 and many ■•sen and hones. A STERS* ENGAGEMENT. BOERS IIK-OCCUPY ERMELO. Received 21, 0.52 a.m. London, May 20. A Borr force with a twelve plunder creuzot gun, two p n m-poms a-d a Maxim, thrice at'ackcd Colonel Hullock between Eimelo and Ameeisfoois. A desp3iats tto capture ilie guns f.iil'd. Louis Botha then ev icuitc-d Erme'o and retreated t) Carolina. C lonal Bullock removed fotty prisoners, including '"ommardant Swary, 150 Ermelo lefug.e families and two d cattle and hors- s to S ander-' ton from Ei m=lo. The Boars re-occu-py Ermelo when Bu!lo:k hid leff. R&ceived 21, 1.2 a.m. London, May 20. Maj 'r-GeoeralEll ott, within a week, has sent a la r ge number of refugees and forty thousand horses and cattle to Stand'rton. ' I

Wellington, May 20. Tbe Premier has received advire fiom the Governor of Cape Colony that Private Bairar, Ff■ h Contingent, cf Timarn, dial of enteric at Kimb.rley cn May 14th. Invercargill, May 20. Tha Premier wi'es that he wi'l end<avourto arrange for the Fourth and Fifth Cmtingents to lind at the Bluff.