BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 206, 5 September 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

DEALING WITH THE KEBELS. TKAIN WRECKING. PEB PRESS ASSOCUTI»N. Lonpon, Septembor 3. Espach, the first rebel convicted in the Barkley West district has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment. List week the Burghersdorp Treasdn Court convic ed 275 persons charged with treason and attempted murder, including 171 vo'ers. Dr. Krausp, who, in tbe cipacity of burgomaste •, last year facilitit d the entry of Lord Roller's into Johannesburg, has been arrested es Wesfc-nios-ter on a cViarpe of espionage.

Cape Dutch have twice offered to ruse a sppc'al corps to chase Boer rebels out of the colony.

The Daily Telegraph's correspondent supplies further de'ails of the Watersval train wrecking. A hundrel Boers, commanded by th<) notorious British renegade, Hinton, ambushed the train in a cutting at night. They seized and gagged the native guards in charge of the cutting, where the train was derailed at dawn. Colonel Vandeleur refused to surrender, and was shot through the heart. A party of Stnenickeris captured eleven Boers and a number of waggons and many catt'e and horses on tbe Jrortuguese border. - Krause, charged under the Fugitive Offenders' Act with high treason in the transvaal, was remanded for'a week, bail being refused.

CAPTURES. ; Keoeived 4,10.41Tp.iri. London, September 4. Lord Kitchener's weekly report is':-!-Nineteen Boers killed, 212 tak°n prisoners, 127 surrendered; 27,550 rounds of ammunition, 194 rifles, 1700 horses, 7500 and 144 wagons captured. MORR LOOTING. SOHBEPER'S MOVEMENTS. Received 1. Jf1.40 p.m. London, 4, I The Boers hive loo'< d Bnvrydale. Scheeper's commando, well mounted but short of ammunition, is proceeding to Laingsburg. PATROL SURPRISED. BRUTALITY OF THE BOERS. LOOTING PASSENGERS. .OFFERING UP THANKS. Received 5, 0.7 a.m. London, Septembe? 4. Theron with 120 men surprised a patrol at Meirens Drift. Three British W6re killed, 4 were wounded 3 escaped, and the rest surrendered but were released after taking an oath of neutrality. Tbe'PoOTsJkflptfiring atthe Waterval traia af f er resistaocs ceised, though informed of tbe presence of women and children. One twice deliberately wounded a nursn girl, another shouted, " we come to kill, not to get supplies." Passengers and officers were robbed of monev, jewellery, clothes, even boot". Children's parments and soldier*' kits were rifled. Thousands of pounds of trea»nre' wer» s'iz°d. Before leaving, the Boers knelt and thanked God.

Wkmjngton, September 4. The GovornT bus received a cable that Surgeon-Mijor Skerman and sixteen men of the New, Zealand forces left Capetown on August 30th by th» iSophocles for Sydney.