THE POSITION IN CAPE COLONY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 295, 13 December 1899, Page 5

THE POSITION IN CAPE COLONY.

SCOTS GREYS ;ARRIVE.

COLONIALS AGAIN IN ACTION.

HEW ZEALANDERS ADD TO BOER

CASUALTIES.

(Received 9.6 a.m.)

CAPETOWN* December 12.

T!?c Royal Scots Greys have arrived at Capetown. The-horses of the re.gU ment have been dyed khaki colour to minimise their chances of being shot. : [The Scots Greys are usually mounted" on a magnificent stamp .of. grey horse, which would of course offer a splendid mark-for. the enemy.] CAPETOWN, December 11. j Th? New South Wales contingent and the New Zealanders in the centre,'' and the Dragoon's-;on thc._~ajriky. oeßUpied Arundel, in '' Northern Cape Colony. They were under fire for five hours, but came through scathless. - X .- . ' '* ••: .:.-•-'. ■•-..• - i *.. [Arundel is IS miles north of MajorGeneral French's headquarters at Naauwpoort, and a similar distance south of the main Boer position at Colesberg.] • - - ■ ..;.-. • The New South 'Wales"" force only had one horse killed. The New Zealanders prevented the Boers from seizing a kopje, killing three. Two thousand Boers, near Colesberg, are breaking railway communi-. cation. The Australians, while scouting, .captured a troop of horses. Artillery and battalion of Scots Greys reinforce Sterkstroora. [Sterkstroom is 20 miles south of. Moitcno, and at the beginning of the ascent of the Stormbergen. Dordrecht, 40 miles in ' a north-westerly direction, is usually reached from Sterkstroom by roadi]