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THE NEW COLONY CAMPAIGN

SUCCESSES AGAINST THE RAIDERS.

5,000 CAPTURED

LONDON, July 30

General Prinsloo, who at the beginning of the war was Free State Commandant-in-Chief, but retired to his farm after the Paardeburg affair, with 3000 men. surrendered unconditionally to General Hunter at Fouriesberg, in the.south-east of Orange River Colony,.near Basutoland. ; f>

[The number, in all probability, is 500, not 5000, as Hunter's force would not be strong enough, to seriously threaten anything, like 5000 men if well posted.]

General Hunter captured Piet De Wet, but the guns and waggons escaped through the hi"y country. General Hunter liberated 100 British soldiers, imprisoned at Fouriesberg.

Six hundred Boers, with waggons and stores, are hemmed in in the neighbouring mountain passes .

Le Rorix, the magistrate at Vredefort, who was reinstated by the BritiLi, has been sentenced to five years' for facilitating De Wet's raids.

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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 180, 31 July 1900, Page 5

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THE NEW COLONY CAMPAIGN Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 180, 31 July 1900, Page 5

THE NEW COLONY CAMPAIGN Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 180, 31 July 1900, Page 5

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