BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 217, 23 September 1901, Page 2

BOER WAR.

CABLE NEWS. 'Br Kleotbjo Tjsmkjbaph—UorrttOßT)

GENERAL ITEMS, f [PBB PBBSS ASSOCIATION*} Loudon, September 10. ' In connection witb the dieaiter at 1 Tarkastod, General French report* that • Oommandan'-. South, in order to break ' j through a cordon which was hemming I him in, rushed a squadron of the 17th 3 Lancers at Elands Hirer Poort, mat 1 of Tarkasfad, killing three ofioen and 1 20. men, and wounding Major Viotor Sandemau and 30 men. The squadron 3 fought most gallantly, inflicting hfWJ | loss on the Boers. The latter wen clad in khaki, and were at first mis- ' taken for British. The oolumna are 3 closely pursuing the cordon Meakm. ' South recently succeeded Krnit--6 ziDger, who is In disfavour with De Wet. In the Utrecht affair, betides those. > killed and wounded, fire- officers in-" ' eluding Major Gough and Mother wlio 3 escaped, were amongst the ctptond. 6 The total nnmber captured is nM stated. - Prominent Boer sympathisers an 3 now compelled to ride in trains tn the ' disturbed districts of the TranavaaL 5 Twenty-eight Boers surrendered at I Krugersdcrp, and nine other* and three armed natives who were showing ' fight were captured. 3 Lord Kitchener forwarded to Ooamandant Prinsloo affidavits showing ' that oo threa ooouions individual bur- • ghers deliberately murdered wounded r troopers and unarmed surrenders. 8 In anticipation of a raid the Natal 3 Carabineers and Umvotl lfnnnlail ' Rifles have also been tumateoed. The Durban volunteers have eo--1 trained northwards. General Lyttelton's regulars an ' estimated at 1000, „ > 3 The field cornets mutilated Loitf b Kitchener's proclamation to pivntot 1 their meu surrendering, • Rinderpest has appeared In the t vernment herd in the y of Pretoria. i .. BOESS OAPTDRR TWO BRITISH flPflf, I 7 ReoeWedJl, 8.16 pm. 1 Lohdoit, September 20. I S wentsen Lancera wen killed, int eluding lieutenant Phillip Leslie Ruapell, of Oamgham, Victoria. 1 An ofiicial despatch stages thai a t superior force at Vlakfonteio, IS mile* 9 south of the waterworks, surrounded and captured two guns of the A lt iH i srj i and a oompauy of mounted men esoortf iogthem. ' *NQLIBH PRESS OOHMKHT& OH THM ® POSITION. 1 ReoeWtd ga «.m pm } Lohbok, September 91. 1 The only details Lord Kitchener hue received of the Vlakfontein revena an • that a lieutenant was killed, and that r columns were pursuing the enemy. I. A strict investigation of the 1 is being ordered. Oolon*l Plunder's New - captured twenty of Kruitxinser's - i,; mando at Rouxville. -| A proclamation has been *«wnil ea- - 9; forcing the Fugitive Offenders Aot im a | the Transvaal. i| Sir Henry Gampbell-BanneiuNL r, speaking at the North Sot Lanark? i, shire bye-election, declared **mli tk* » annexation of the Boer RepuMioa mart ■ I be upheld. I The Standard and Daily TdegraaL s j commenting on the reoent roTei sss. 5, question the wisdom of sending got a, with small detachments, and running i the risk of being outnumbered. Hi* , paper* admit that unfavourable odda 9 were occasionally inevitable from * military standpoint, owing to tfca 1 character of the countiy, and tl» i scattered position of the foroe as a ) result of the guorilla tactics employed » by the enemy. The Wmetand Jf«w> 3 ing Post warn the Government tlia# I the nation has long siooe realiaad tit* ■ necessity to figbt to the fiai.h, tuti the ■ nai ion is entitled to have n ponsi* bility brought home to thoet bkmttbb, i a fact which has only been reilisedl ■ intermittently. LKTTORS fflOH THX TRQXT. " Trooper Barrett (formerly a member i of the Dailt News mechanical staff) writing from U7reoht on June 20, I B\yß:—W© have been having * nttfch time of it lately, as the Boers an hen very thiok ye% and we have been ehnsing them all over the show, Ws are with Plumer, and have b*eo through tiie roughest track ri any contingent—on the way to PietwaSni* through what they call the bush t rict, but it is ail prickl a. The Boer* seem frightened of Ptumer's ooitma. we tfot a lot of praooera, alao eogtnWL , trucks and waggons at PietM%#Z , and only 'osfc thme killed and fln or six wounded on the way np, 'lt || *iid that we are to get a clasp on out medals for the entry into Pieterebur#. At Warm Baths we killed a few of th* enemy, batidm w uuding several and capturing prisoners and waggon*. I he toughest piece t f work I waa in w , B at Bethel with Coloual Galloway, when we were bringing 25,000 shew and a few thousand eatfle at Stander* ton, together with several hundred Boar wowen and a lot of priamer® and «upplies. We had übo it 500 " Tommiea." but only 70 mounted men. We had. fofijsbi th«t diffusive aeainft Vtfjien's and Myors' cowra*ndos of abouA 1500 men. Thft ongauemeut lasted for two days, in ono which wn had 21 wo'inded and 8 killed, A Boer oommiindmt catna into our camp wi*Ji a white fl()g to ask for a dootor, and ban went abd dr (Med 41 wounded Boen» We got a despatch to Plumer. wb» cam© to our assistance,' and the Bben S V** ta u mg the ® *bbut 10,000 of our sheep. I was glad that Plumer came, as we wen suarounded. and oould not otherwise have sot out What the Biers were so aCfc wps tbrt we had Viljoen's TnteodeJ wife with us and he wanted bat a* they were just going to be aa.ricd ; but we spoilt that arrangement, and finished up by burning the town, ffe >b marvellous how dosa the bailee come without hitting, although eom* will cut your tunic, but we bad a 10-, of hones B>.p. I have been in two or tt.ree affaiw siooe, and in one we cot into a trap, twelve of our men befnc taken prisoners. Lieutenant Ryan! who was leading us, got shot through the head. He was a splendid fellow, aod we wereall sorry to lose him. Th* dum-dum bullets crack over you like • whip, so you can easily tell tbf-m. Tbi» lis not a bad game if they wouldsivo yon lots of tucker, but when yeu have* to go on half rations it is " no olasn "" We have been on three biaouiteadar for nine days, but an now getting foul ntoons. lately we Inn ben chute^

Botha, and often marching all night.: Heslipi'd no, but we got 16 of his waggons and 50 prisoners at Pietretief, whic'a t >wn we burnt d. Since then weh iveV en brrß\in» np and burning Boer faims, and b inging a<l the women with us. They go for us sometimes, but we t ke no notice and ju9t j bundle them out. To-night we leave' on aSO day's tr<k. I have plaved two! gamee of fojtl 11 since I havb been out! here, one biiog New Zealand v. Austalia, and in this we won by 16 to nil. |