The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 183, 1 August 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London, July 21. Reuter’s. messages report that Comm ndaut Spraut wa< kilkd while attempting to cross the railway near Heidelberg. July 29. Colonel Garrett captured a laager at Losherg with twenty-five prisoners, 1000 cattle and many horses and sheep. The War. Office is publishing the statements which Lord Kitchener collected 'supporting - lie-truth of British account® of \he Vlakfontcin outrage. Piet Forster a Gorman, is uaineci - as the most prominent offend-t: ; - The mortality, in the concentration camps in South' Africa is steadily dimirV ishing. . . 1. . ■ Three hundred Bier families, with their waggons, trekked to. BechuansllauS and cla'med Britnh protection. » ..., Privates R. Scott and J. Pitt, of the Manchester Rtgi pent, have been awarded the Victoria "Cross for holding a aangar and fighting foodless and waterless for fifteen hours at Caesar’s camp on. January sh. - ...... ..... Boers attacked the refugee camp afc Aliwal North, but were repulsed, , Details of the : capture of Latigan’e laager showThit ninety of Lukin’s Cape Rifles Idiowed the track of a stolen cart across the veldt, ultimately locating the hiding place and defeating 150 of the enemy. Lieutenant Webby with twelve meif, while trying to outflank Latigan on $ ridge, was confronted by fifty Boers, who killed one and wonuded four. held the position for an hour, until gunk arrived and scattered the enemy. The King and Queen, at Marlborough House, presented medals to 500 African and Ashanti soldiers and 10S nurses. Their Majesties, conversed with two of the colonial nurses and with several maimed Australian eoldiesrs, Wh6 were cheered. , . . .. The recipients included the,Duke ,of Norfolk and Mr Winston Churchill, whilst among the cplonial contingent was Lieutenant A. R. J. Dewar, a New Zealander. • ■ .. July 30, . A Baer commando, by ■: hi; ken, l‘prtugttes| '.aril'.;., v near the rivers Limpopo and I eu-i.-i-'.. Troops have - been , ti ■ iUat-m them. - . .■ iVapieb, July 28. . -. goaui. I'ot<'i?s»i, seriously wonnaea, Verecniging, was attsobed to thfr Third Contingent,- and saw some bars lighting during his £r»{- campaign. ;fiU - aiptn.red Sr. 1 !-ni nubs:y !'",:ir.c-d from Nooiig-a.ii: .'hi uu l ..J-: !y eluded Boer pursuers, nut or: reaching Britioh lines was shot by a Sen