THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
INVASION OF CAPE COLONY. ACTIVITY OF TEE ENEMY. i United Press ..«-ocj's.ticn—By Eleetrio j Telegraph—Copyright. I (Received January 12th, 10.26 a.m.) LONDON. January 11. Commandant llmUc' 1 ".. with 700 men aidtwo guns, have cr;..-... the Roggeveld mountains, in Western Cap? Colony, and, after travelling a distances of fifty miles, have< been loot"to pursuit in the Cianwilliam country. which :":. extremely difficult, and where the passes are easily dafended. Tho cruiser Sybil's bluejackets and guns liave been landed at- Lambert':, Bay, on the West Coast, and are entrenching to prevent Hertzag advr.neir.g along the sand veldt.
A second column, £00 strong, belonging to th«_ western invading commando, has reached Doom river, seventy miles south of Calvinia.
The eastern invading commando, under Commandant Kruitzinger. wa- within fif-te-n miles of Richmond on the 9th.
Ssveral thousand Boers in Bechuanaland, who were supposed to be trekking to German East A-ricu-.i territory, have turned south, and occupied Griquatown, 95 miles west of Kimberley.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10864, 14 January 1901, Page 5
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