BRITISH SUCCESSES.
OVER 500 BOERS CAPTURED.
A BIG HAUL OF STOCK.
/ IXZ. Press Association. —Copyright.]
(Keceived 9.17 a.m.)
LONDON, May 13
fi ,,eral British columns moved line and capled twenty-seven Boers, 'colonel Colenbrander captured a after clear•le districts east of Hart's River, * west with General Rochfort, % S and .took belonging to the Jmandos of that district. Park captured thirty Boers m the Eastern Transvaal. ■•_ „• ,I'pv mentioned in the foreP?SS«S. *in the Mddle °f roO^ Goiony 'whiie^ arts 11 in the South-western Transit toerall»a Hamilton and Colofolenbrander have been mentionj2S frequently in the cab c- ' Slate. It is only just a month Vfat they each obtained a eonsidSS2S over the Boers GeneHamilton (who is Lord Kitehe's ehief-of-staff) met a strong JL 0 f Boers in the South-western Transvaal on the occasion referred i and killed 44 Boers, including o'mirandant Potgietier. Fifty-four Boers were captured, and two guns and , pom-pom were taken. Colonel Colenbrander, encountering Commandant Beyers, inflicted 106 casualties.J
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1902, Page 5
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