THE BOER WAR.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 31. Tho South African Compensation Commission has decided that tho employes of the Netherlands Railway havo forfeited the right of neutrals to compensation. Details of tho fight between Kruitzingor and Colonel Crabbo show that the latter when the horses stampeded was without guns, and though surrounded and twice outnumbered, crept in tho dead of night through the enemy’s lines. ROUNDING UP THE BOERS. STEYN APPOINTS A DAY OF HUMILITY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
London, Aug. 1. Colonel Charles Knox, in a ten days’ clearance of Bethulic and Thabanchu, captured Field - Cornet Protorius, 126 waggons, 1623 cattle, and 61,300 sheep. Colonel Alleuder surprised the Boors at Wagooslitadlspruit, killing six, wounding three, and capturing four. Steyn has ordered August tho Bth and 9th to be set apart for humiliation and prayer. POOR PEGPLfTjOININ G BOERS. OUT AFTER LOuT. BANK BRANCHES BEING CLOSED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Aug. 1. Many poor whites at the Capo aro joining commandos in order to obtain loot. The Standard Bank is closing branches owing to not boing protected by the military against raiders.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 173, 2 August 1901, Page 2
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