The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 192, 22 August 1901, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London. Augu9t 19. Kruitzinger's Commando, many with oat horses, hive oops d the Orange River. The British columns are pursuing and shelling the Boers. Five hundred Boers in the Fouresmith district, amongst whom aie seveiaJ women oa horseback, are collecting horses. A commando, 150 strong, wrecked a section of the Mafeking railway. An armoured train came into action, and eucoited the d"wn mcil'train hack. Scbeeper's Commando is dangerously isolated iu the South of Cape Colony. Colonel Gorringe on th > 13th killed twenty Bo- rs, and captured KruitzingerV secretary, and « quantity of documents. There are 91,940 whites and 24,547 coloured people in the lefugee camps. During July the deaths of whites numbered 1412; largely v.ctims of measles. Commandant Baden Horn's doctor, in fetching medical necessaries from Kimberley, deo'ined to oa ry Lord Kitchener's proclamation, fearing that he might be shot. August 20. Before he was exp lied from Cape Colony Kiuitzinger ws rhased and hustled by onveiging cohmns, ha r assed by blockhouses, and c nipelJed to maintain a running tight f r thirty miles. He killed lßOufliisownho te . Theßtitish found a wound d Boars. hTDNbY, August 20. Two hundrad and ninety returned troops, indu-iiug a number belonging to the lute China contingent, sailed by the Biitanui-j for South Africa under agreement to be drafted into any regiment. ,