The Boer War.
By Telegraph—rress Association—Copyright. London, Jan. 22. Fourteen Boers were killed at Taungs on the 14th. Piequetburg is crowded with Dutchmen selling horses to the English, and surrendering arms and ammunition. General Babington expelled the Boers at Makarekraal.
The Cape authorities are straining every nerve to send men to tho front. Saddlers are working night and day. The colonial troops have a base at Malmesburg. _ t Reuter reports that Christian De Wet is still in tlic Orange Colony, and that tho De Wot who is with Louis Botha in tho Transvaal is merely a namesake.
The Boer leaders are sedulously intercepting and destroying copies of Kitchener’s proclamation. General Clements has withdrawn from a position fifty miles south-west of Johannesburg to Pretoria. Cecil Smith, a New Zealand Roughrifior, has died of dysentery at ‘Mifeking. La a fight at Bushman's Krantz on tho 16th there were sixteen British casualties, chiefly amongst the Ist Rifle Brigade.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 19, 24 January 1901, Page 3
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