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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 55, 25 February 1902, Page 3

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Br ELBCTBIC TbLBOBAPH.—OOPYRIGHT. BOER WAR. i TOE WET'S MOVBMENTB. , PER PBESS ASSOCIATION. Losdos, February 23. The Standard says that De Wet, with 400 meo, cut the wire entanglements west of Lindley on the 10th, losing eleven men. He returned to the Liebenbergolei river, north of Reitz. , He roughly treats the Traosvaalers who are disposed to surrender. The Frea Staters are more irreconcilable. ! Steyn's influence with the Fue Staters exceeds De Wet's. ( Steyn tales the greatest precautions against capture, baing always accompanied by a b dy guard. ' CAPTURES. 1 ATTACK ON A BLOCKHOUSE LINE. FRIENDLY ATTITUDE OF AMERICA. Received 24,10.13 p.m. 1 Londox, February 54. Details of the capture of 154 Boers' 1 •lAws that Colonels Park, Williams ] and Urmston forces surprised three of i Trichardb's laagerp, but the membnis rf . the Boer government and the Hindon! train wreckers escaped. Twenty of; Triohardt's force surrendered. ! Commandant Ro s, with 300 Boers attacked the Frankforfc-Vivdn block- ■ house line on thu night of the 19th,' the Boers on the south op»nine a j fire on the blockhouse at 120 yaids. | Boss drove a herd of cattle against the; wire fence. Many Boers traversed j northwards, several being shot. j The Free Staters propose to O'oss., the Vaal fo as to avoid the Orange ] Blockhouses. I A skirmish took place westwaod of. Beaufort West on the 18th, when th.-v notorious rebel Van Herden and Commandant Judge Hugo were wounded I and captured. Hugo has succumbed I to bis injuries. j Mr Hay has refused to ask for pass-' ports from the British authorities to j enable Dr Thomas, of Chicago, and hi' wife to distributa moneys at thn concentration camps in South Africa. Vanderneve, son of an Afrikander Bond member, has been sentenced to fife years for joining the Boers. Received '25,0.47 a.m. London, February 24. ' A hundred men of the vnluntser composito regiment surround; d four Boers in a farmhtuse at Vrvbeid. Colonel Evans approached the dnor and demanded a surrender, hu f . the Boers fired, killing him and M«jor Blunt, and wounding a third, Threa Boers were captured, the fourth escaped. | At an Afrikander nKe'ing at Gara- j feipst, including the Hon Maasdorp, many Bond members protested apaiosi; the slanders, nnd passed a vote of confidence in Mr Chambeslain, Lord Milner, and Lord Kitchener. Similar meetings were held at Middle'ourg and Aliwal North. ! CASUALTIES. ' Wellington, February 21. The Governor has received a c.iMegram from the casualty department »<■. Cape Town stating that 3665 B. Stephens, of the Sixth N#w Zeihnd Mounted Infantry, died . f enteric at Charlestown on tti» Tilth inst.; 4528 J. H. Waight. of the Seventh New Zealand Mounted Inhntry, died of . enteric at Heilbr-p. * Advice was received to-night the Surrey and Cornwall left; Albany at daylight this morning for Durban.