THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 106, 14 May 1901, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

CAPTURE OF 1,500 BOERS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrglit

London, May 12.

A laager was surprised at Vaaldriud. Six Boors were killed and four wounded. Lieutenant 11. T. Reid, of the Australian Imperial Bushmen, has been gazetted a Companion of tho Distinguished Service order, for the capture of Commandant Sehroedcr last month. Tho following casualties to Victorian Mounted Rilles at Rhcnostcr lvop on th 7th are reported : Lieutenant A. J. Johnston, killed; Captain John Kelly, died of wounds - ; Corporal Hammose, Troopers Littlejohn and Kelly, severely wounded. Tho destruction of Havtobecstcfontoin has greatly hampered Delarey, who retreated on Woolmaraustad, where the late Boor capital was established. As tho result of a combined British movement in Ambush Veldt and Piotorsburg district, 1,500 armed burghers surrendered and were captured. Tho enemy aro less able to support a bush campaign than the British when tho roads and drifts are blocked. BOERS FIGHTING FOR BRITISH. SHOOT TIIEIR BROTHER BOERS. BOERS SELECTING LAND IN CANADA. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Received 12.26 a.m., May 14. London, May 13. Sevoral Boors, formerly British enemies, and now belonging to tho Johannesburg Town Guard, participated in a gallant light near Potchefstroom. Five Boers, including Commandant Doßruin, wero killed. A Boer emissary is selecting land in Canada. He announces that seven hundred intend to settle there. POSITION OF THE BOERS.

STILL HAVE A LARGE FORCE WITH GUNS. HARASSING THE BRITISH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 14, 12.26 a.m.) London, May 13. The Standard’s Pretoria correspondent statos that the country is so denuded that there is every reason to hope that the Boors will be unable to hold out through the winter, but they still have quantities of unearthed guns and ammunition, and trustworthy estimates mention that thero are still sixteoq thousand five hundred Boers in the field. The Standard’s Pretoria correspondent also stares that a thousand Boers, with two field guns, and two pom-poms, harassed Major-General Campbell while returning to Middloburg. Another body of the enemy with a pom-pom harassed General Smitli-Dorricn while returning on a parallel line at Wandorfontein. BOERS CAUGHT NAPPING. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright London, May 13. While tho Swanopolish commando wero off saddling, near Quaggashock, a number of Midland Mounted Rifles fired from a ridgo, and killed four and wounded six. MOVEMENTS OF BOERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 13. Delarey, with a thousand men, many of them without horses, is moving westwards from Wolmaranstad. A commando, believed to bo Do Wet’s, two thousand strong, with two guns, passed southwards west of Greylingstad. General Knox shelled tho rearguard. Major-General Elliot is approaching tho enemy from tho south-west.

MORE MEN ON THE WAY HOME. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Inst night. The following Now Zealanders loft on the Bth inst. for Melbourne : 415 Thompson 485 White 1020 Clark 1094 White 1298 Hart 1454 Patton 1460 Robinson 1461 Ross 1472 Tanner 1539 Woof 1603 Ailken 1651 Mclntosh 1055 McKechnio 1667 Monk 2271 McDonald 2351 Brown 2488 Lister