Transvaal War.

Feilding Star, Volume XXII, Issue 165, 15 January 1901, Page 2

Transvaal War.

Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright I Wellington. January 14. I Captain Andrews, Hyderabad Lancers/ at present in the colony on furlough hai accepted the captaincy of one of the companies of the Sixth Contingent. Another has been offered to Captain Ful ton, Dunedin. who went with the Fourth Contingent and returned invalided. THE ORANGE PEACE COMMITTEE. A BRITISH SUBJECT SHOT. London, January 14. Lord Kitchener reports that three agents of the Orange River Colony Peace Committee were taken prisoners to De Wet's laager near Lindley on the 10th. AU were flogged by De Wet's orders. One British subject was also shot. LEYDS AND FISCHER INTERVIEWED. A Telegraph representative interviewed Dr Leyds and Mr Fischer at Brussels. Both declare that if the struggle is continued they are confident of regaining their independence. THE INVASION OF CAPE COLONY. Moving from Dordrecht Major-Gen-eral Wodehouse, with a force of Volunteers, expelled the Boers from a strong position near Barkley East. The Boers retired in the position of Cramberg, the Lancers pursuing them to Myberg. The Commander escaped by seizing a valuable horse belonging to a native and riding off. Raiders have appeared at Damslaagte, 28 miles north of Majesfontein. Disloyalists are creating confusion by circulating false information with respect to the movements of the invaders. At daybreak on the 12th inst., 1400 Boers attacked Zaurfontein and Kalfon tein, but were repulsed and driven in an easterly direction, with cavalry in pursuit. A field cornet was captured, and several killed. The British casualties were six. Kalfontein was shelled for six hours but the garrison of 140 maintained an exceptionally gallant defence. Major-General Boyes defeated the Boers at Senekal, in the eastern part of Orange River Colony, killing Commandant Duprey and eight burghers. There were no British casualties. The Boers attacked Zeerust, in the Eastern^ Transvaal, on the 7th inst., but were repulsed. Six of the British were wounded. The Irish Rifles surprised a Boer laager at Eopjeallen, near the Ventersburg road, south of Kroonstad, and captured three hundred horses and a number of cattle. Several drafts of cavalry sail from England for the Cape immediately. The Morning Post says the raising of colonial police has been temporarily abandoned, the War Office preferring the enlistment of Yeomanry.