CABLE NEWS.
[BY KLKOTIUO TELEQUArU. — OOriKIGUT.] THE SOUTHJFRICAN WAR OPERATjQNSJNJHE NORTH. CAPTURES BY COLONEL KEKEWICH. FATAL TRAIN ACCIDENT. [FUESS ASSOCIATION.! i "LONDON, 28th September. Colonel Kekewich, operating northwast of Rustenburg, in tho western Traifevaal, captured 35 Boers, 60 horses, 30 rifles, and five wagons full of clothing. > A train was accidentally derailed tt Standerton, on the Natal-Pretoria linfc. Six Dragoon. Guards were killed and 36 injured. Details of the Vlakfontein affair shoty that the British intended to capture i party of 50 roving Boers, and tho gun» opened fire at 200 yards. ' On the Boers surrounding the British, and encircling them with a brisk rifle fire, the breech-block of one gun, with the belongings of both, were destroyed, and the breech-block of tho second gun •was buried before the force surrendered.
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Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 79, 30 September 1901, Page 5
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131CABLE NEWS. Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 79, 30 September 1901, Page 5
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