GUERILLA ENCOUNTERS.
COMMANDO NEAR VRYBURG.
OALLAXT EXPLOIT CLOSE TO JOHANNESBURG.
1 REBELS DESERTING
PEOPOSALS FOR SUERENDEK
(Received 9.1 a.m.)
LONDON, December A big- commando, with 1(50 waggons
is in the Yryburg district, aim trekking westward. The commando crossed the C'apc-towu-Buluwayo railway at .Brussels siding', south of Yryburg1. 270 Boers also crossed the Jine at Saltpans. A force of: police at Boksbur"', near Johannesburg', »;aJiantly held two 'hundred Jioc-r.s at bay, and repelled their attacks till reinforced from Johannesburg1. j The enemy retreated. The .Boers in the recent raid into the south and east of Orange River Colony damaged the homes of the farmers and such machinery as they | encountered.
South of Thabanchn Aery few respectable farmers-joined the I'oers. .■Many afforded llajor-Geiieral Knox .Valuable inform at io n. LONDON, December 28. A commando of rebels, anticipating De Wet's defeat, entered Cape Colony eastward of Bethulie and then melted away. Some are declared rebels, and all believe that if they are captured tight- j ing in Orange liiver or Transvaal ter- j ritory they will be shot, but if- they | surrender in Cape Colony they will be i amenable to the treason law.
De A Yet, Steyn and Commandant Haasbruck recently conferred and decided to surrender if the rebels are not punished and they themselves and other leaders are not deported. General Kno"x, with Colonels Barker, Filcher and White, are engaging- De Wet's force near Leuwkop, in the Ladybrand district. De Wet hopes to break through to the southward.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 310, 29 December 1900, Page 5
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