THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
DISASTER IN THE TRANSVAAL. A VICTORIAN FORCE SURPRISED. SIXTY MEN KILLED OR WOUNDED. TWO HUNDRED TAKEN PRISONER. [I'RESS jftsOOIATION.} LONDON, 17th June. Lord Kitchener reports that 250 of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, detached from Colonel Beatson's column, were surprised i-\ c.imp at Steenkoospruit (near Wilmanruat, twenty miles south of Middelburg) at 7.30 o'clock on the morning of the 12th, by a superior force of Boers. The enemy crept withiu short range and poured in a deadly fire, killing two oilict-is and sixteen men, and wounding four officers and 38 men. Twenty-eight of the latter were only slightly injured. Only two officers and 50 men rejoined Colonel Beatson's column. The remain-cl.-r were captured and released. t . Two pmpoms were captured. The Times, commenting on the disaster to tha Victorians,' says there is sincere a.id profound mourning throughout the JKiiunre for our brave colonial kinsmen who died a soldier's death. It would be necessary for the Government to continue the war until the Boers own finally that they are defeated. The nation does not vaut a patched-up peace.
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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1901, Page 5
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180THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1901, Page 5
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