CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.]
♦ • THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR BOER RAIDERS. SCHEEPER'S SUPPLY CARTS CAPTURED. [rDESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, 11th September. The -whole of Commandant Scheeper's supply oarts have been captured. ATTACK ON SUTHERLAND. (Received September 12, 9.4 a.m.) LONDON, 11th September. Commandant Louvr, with 250 men, attacked Sutherland, a hundred and seventy miles north-east of Capetown. The Town Guard and local rifles, however, successfully defended the town, and the Boers retired during the night. A COMMANDO SURPRISED AND DEFEATED. (Received September 12, 9.30 a.m.) • LONDON, 11th September. Colonel Crabbo at dawn on the 10th inst. surprised and defeated Scheeper's chief lieutenant at Drifontein, killing Vandermerve, wounding several, and capturing Field Cornet Duplessis, the cleverest Boer scout, and thirty-seven others. The rest fled eastward. Four British were killed.Colonel Kavanagh's column drove back Theron's commando, preventing an attrack on Mossel Bay, on the southern coast of Cape Colony.
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Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 64, 12 September 1901, Page 5
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146CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 64, 12 September 1901, Page 5
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