The Boer War.
THE FIGHTING AT BARKLY WEST.
BOER CASUALTIES.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Jan. 22.
Tho Boers had seven men killed and forty wounded in the fighting which recently took place at Blaaklaagte, Barkly West district. In reference to the regiment of Scottish Horse which is being formed at Durban, arrangements have been completed, under which recruits approved by the agents at Australian ports will be offered free passages to South Africa. Three hundred horses which were commandeered by the British in Carnarvon district have been paid for. Some native police whom tho Boers captured in tho neighborhood of Willowmore were shot.
Kruitzinger’s and Schelper’s commandos are now advancing on Uniondale and Oudsthorn, south-west of Willowmoro.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 18, 23 January 1901, Page 2
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