BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 189, 20 August 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

HARRASSING THE COMMANDOS. FES PBEBS ASSOCIATION. i London, August 18. Commandant Krui f zinger was driven in confusion to near Venterstad. General French's and other columns are pushing the enemy northwards from Cape Colony. I TRAIN WRECKERS AT WORK. Received 19, 1025 pm. London, August 19. A commando 150 otrong has wrecked a section of the Mafeking railway. An armoured train came into action and escorted the down mail train back. FURBUIT OF THE COMMANDOS. BOER AMAZONS. IMPERIAL S'KVJCK CLUB. Received 19,10.35 p.m. London", August 19. Kruifzinger's commando, many of the men bring without horses, has recrcssed the Orange River. British columns are pursuing and shelling the Boers. Rimington'3 Yeomanry have daily encounters with the enemy. Five hundred Boera in the Fauresmith district, among whom are Feveral women on horseback, are collecting horses. South African campaigners, including the colonials, have established an Imperial Servic3 Club in London. ■ SOHEEPER CORNERED, JULY'S DISEASE DEATH ROLL.

Beceived 20,1.4 a.m. ' London, August 19. | Sche'per's commando is dangerously, isolated ill t.he south of Cape Colony, j Colonel Gorringfi on 'ho 13th killed | 20 Brers, and cipUred Ki ui'z : nper's. secretary, and a quantity of documents. The Daily News siys the resistance | in the Orange River Co'nnv is ended, the Boers beir>j? icclinedjjin tha last extremity to bprom" desperate. There are 91,940 whites «nd 24,547 coloured people in the r fugee camps. Du ing July the deaths among whites numbered 1412, largely the victims of measles. Commandant Badi nhorsh's doctor, while fetching medical nece-saries from. Kimber'ey, declined to carry L"rd Kitchener's proclannt'oo, fearing he j might be shot. j Wellington, August 1.9 | The Premier has received the following raHfl :—" The Seven'b Contingent mad« another large convov capture. Officers and m»n all well. , Major Abbott commanding " . Advice h«6 been received from the Defence Office »t Sydney that a num- | ber of troopers from South Africa are! passengers by the Waiho*a, due inj j Wellington on Wedresday. Their | names are; - Sergeant De Litonii Cor-1 poral Griffiths, Privates Suttep, Find'ater, Scowa", Orr, Sharplir, Petche', Dashwood, Sutherland, Watson, Hamilton, Powdrell, Chapman, Wright, and Juries.