DE WET'S INVASION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 1 March 1901, Page 5

DE WET'S INVASION.

SURRENDER AN

ALTERNATIVE OF THE

RAID

HERTZOG HAS

JUNCTIONED

BRITISH SURROUNDING

THE COMBINED COMMANDOS

(Eeeeived 10 a.m.)

LONDON, February 2S.

Commandant De Wet recently ad▼ised Commandant Ilertzog that unless the raid into the Cape Colony 't proved a signal success it would be better to consider the advisability of irarrendering. Commandant Hertzog- has now succeeded in effecting- a junction with De Wet and Steyn, and the three are camped together on the south bank of the Orange River.

Colonel Thornycroft'3 brigade is passing- towards them from the -west, and the other British commanders are converging to intercept them in every direction. Be Wet is preparing to move eastward ; across the railway between Norvals Pont and Naauwpoort junction.

In Saturday's engagement with Commandant De Wet's force Captain W. C. Marcer of the Coldstream Guards, and Privates Sheehan,: O'Brien, and Green, of the Victorian Mounted Eifles, captured a fifteen pounder. Sir Alfred tailner confirms a report that Commandant Hertzog flogged a Kaffir named at Calvinia so brutally that the punishment proved fatal.

LONDON, February 27,

Mr Burleigh, the correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph/ cabled on 'Tuesday evening that the Orange Biver was still high, and that the British column was tightening its fcrip on Steyn and De Wet. Hertzog is near Petrusville (10 miles west of Zand Drift, through "which De' Wet's force crossed into Cape Colony), and thejjatrols are engaged. A battle is Wunent,

Forty Boers were captured near Willowmore, 110 miles north-west of fort Elizabeth.

Commandant Scheeper's laager at tftllowmore, with all supplies, was captured when the bulk of the comtoando was absent.