BOER RAIDERS.
THE NATAL RAILWAY INJURED. ATTACK ON A BRITISH CONVOY. ' TWO GUNS LOST. LONDON, 29th October. Eighty Boers, led by a Russian officer, raided Waschbank, in, Natal, eighteen miles south of Dundee, on the main line of railway. They captured a goods train, and injured the line. A British convoy that was being escorted by Caps Police was attacked in dens© bush at Hoopstad^ in the northwest of the Orange Kiver Colony. The Boers, who Were under General Ben Viljoen, faced a heavy Maxim fire, and succeeded in capturing two guns. The arrival of reinforcements of the Imperial Yeomanry saved the convoy. Seven British were, killed, eleven wounded, and fifteen taken prisoners.
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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 104, 30 October 1900, Page 5
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