THE TRANSVAAL WAR.
SHARP ENCOUNTER.
Australian Casualties.
Boers Troublesome Near
Kroonstad.
Capture of Highlanders.
United Preet Association,
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Received July 25,1.30 a.m.) London, July 24. Major-General Broadwood had a sharp encounter at Palmietfontein, on the 19th inst., with a commando of 2000, with four guns, commanded by Steyn and the two De Wets.
Darkness prevented pursuit. Major Moore, Western Australian, and four men were killed.
Lieutenant Stanley, 10th Hussars, Lieutenant Tooth, and fourteen men were wounded.
Eight Boers were buried. The Boers have destroyed the telegraph wires north of Houingspruit, about twenty-one miles north of Kroonstad, and south of the Vaal river.
A British supply train with a hundred Highlanders was captured.
[per press association.]
Wellington, This day. Sir Alfred Milner cables:—" Eegret to report that Lieutenant D. K. L. Tooth, of the New Zealand Contingent, was wounded at Palmietfontein, 20 miles east of Bethlehem, on July 19th." No officer, however, of this name can be found on the lists.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9824, 25 July 1900, Page 3
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