THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 218, 20 September 1901, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

CRAFTY SON OF KRUGER.

By Telegraph—Fress Association—Copyright London, Sept. 18. Kruger’s youngest son, Iguard, surrendered in order to securo tho safety of the farms his father ceded to him. The Boers wounded a woman mid two children at a refugee camp. Colonel Benson surprised a laager oil the 11th, capturing ill prisoners.

Brigadier-General Kekewieh captured titi prisoners, including Field-Coruet Klupper, in the Maglieslmrg Hills. Major-General Gilbert Hamilton, after an eighty miles' ride, captured 2.1 west of Sehroonspruit, with 140 remounts.

The South African war correspondents attending the Danzig matneuvres describe the scouting of the Germans us greatly superior to the British.

Lord Kitchener warmly supports tm appeal for Christmas comforts for tho troops in South Africa. A party of Amennes' Scouts, following fifty Boers at ITatrund, were surrounded by two hundred, and charged through, losing two killed and four wounded, and killing and wounding eight of the enemy. London, Sept. 19.

A patrol of Grenadier Guards surrounded a farm at licit siding on tne l>e AarNauivpoort line. It was ca, lured after a stubborn resistenco. An officer and one man were killed, and ti.o were wounded. A sergeant was drowned while swimming the river to get support.

COWARDLY ACTIONS. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyrighj Loudon, Sept. 19. It was during the attiu-kon Belfast that the Boors wour.dcd a woman and two children in the retugec camp.