BOER WAR.

Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 826, 10 December 1900, Page 3

BOER WAR.

BOERS CAPTURE 17,000 SHEEP. DE WET MOVING NORT-E ASTWARDS FROM ODBNNARL. GENERAL KNOX IN PURSUIT. V (RSlived ])ecembcr 9, 4.45 p.m.) London, Decembers. BOEKS captured soventeen thousand sheep, which were escorted by a party of soldiers, between Potcbefstroom and Krugersdorp, but it is expected that they will shortly be retaken. Da Wet has moved east north-east from Odennarl. General Knox is following. He captured a Krupp gun and a waggon of ammunition. General Macdouald commands at Aaliwll North. KRUGER AND QUEEN WILHKLMINA. AN INTERVIEW GRANTED. EX-PRESIDENT RECEIVED WITHOUT CEREMONY. (Received December 10,12 21 a.m.) The Hague, December 9. Queen Wilhelmina has assumed a less aggressively sympathetic attitude towards Kruger and accorded him a private audience, lasting a quarter of an hour. , . . Owing to the Ex-President being incognito, ha was not with the ceremony paid to a Chief of State. THE LATEST. KRUGER'S VISIT TO ITALY DECLINED. THREAT BY THE EX-PRESI-DENT. INCRIMINATING CORRESPONDENCE TO BE PUBLISHED. IMPLICATION OF THE POWERS -WHO ENCOURAGED THE WAR. ' (Received December 10, 8.44 a.m.) Rome, December 9. The Italian Government has declined Kruger's proposed visit. London, December 9. Kruger threatens to publish the correspondence implicating the Powers who encouraged the Boer war. DEATri OF A NEW ZEALANDER. DE WET'S FORCE DIVIDED AND EXHAUSTED, LINE OF FLIGHT STREWN WITH DEAD HORSES. ; • I KNOX IN DESPERATE PURSUIT FOR FOLR DAYS. (Received December 10, 8.44 a.m.) London, December 0. Sergeant R. E. Smith, a New Zealander, succumbed to bis wounds received at Reitfonteiu. De Wet's force has divided. It is thoroughly exhausted. Hundreds of dead horses are strewn 'in the line of flight. Gen. Knox has been desperately chasing him for four days in heavy rain and cold wind. The pursuers are often without supplies. DE WET FAILS TO CROSS THE COOMASSIE BRIDGE. HE ABANDONS MANY HORDES AND WAGGONS. (Received December 10.12.21 a.m.) London, December 9. Failing to force the Coomassie bridge at the Orange River, where the British were posted, De Wet trecked north-east and abandoned 500 horses and many carts. He is hard-pressed on all sides.