The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, September 11. General Buller on Saturday attacked a precipitous ridge in horse,hoe form 1500 feet high. Spifczkop road lay at the furthest point, while >leep ravines prevented a turning movement. The position was '3ftmed under cover of artilleL'y.. The Devons operated oai tho'"right, tho Royal Irish- in the"centre, and „he Royal Sco+.^on-'^fas'iefC*' *TKe enemy retreated over }\& narrow causeway and lost many, though a mist sheltered them. A shrapnel shell burst over a volunteer company of Gordon Highlanders while marching in cohimn seven miles from the enemy, lulling three and wounding 16; but it did not interfere with their steadiness. The total British casualties - were 13 killed and 25 wounded. •-. September 12. President Kruger arrived &*, Delagoa on Tuesday. General Buller fought 10 miles through difficult mountains on Sunday, and, the King's Rifles and Gordons and Artillery supporting, he drove the Boers from successive crests. Sixty waggons were seen at sunset, six miles distant. The Boer leaders admit that at last the army is broken, and have decided to declare a guerilla warfare. The garrisons at Ladybrand, Ficksburg and Senekal have been withdrawn to assist Major-General Hunter in pursuing and enveloping the commandos. Stores from these places have been conveyed to Basutoland for safety, ! Lieutenant-General Baden Powell will probably command 25,000 irregular police, chiefly colonial

Sydney* September 12. -* " Banjo " Patterson has returned from the Transvaal. He says there is no doubt that the hospital arrangements failed signally,, bat the failure was not attributable to the hospital authorities, T>ut to staff officers taking the medical transport and supplies. .

troops. September 13. Lord Roberts concurs inthescathing verdict of the Court of Enquiry at Pretoria into the treatment of British prisoners by the Boers'.