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Hastings Standard, Volume V, Issue 1424, 15 January 1901, Page 4

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< Per United Press Association—-::-r;: -.xd foreign Ottawa, January li The ( n-.- i.an Pacific Railway Company ins tho Canadian Pacific X-uigo'.rjU Comp'" y's fieot. .St. i J ETi'Ki.i;L"KG, January 11. A Ui.'-ibic blizzard raged during the week in South Russia. Six trains with 5000 passengers were snowbound at Razdyelnaia. They were nearly starved. After digging for three days 1000 soldiers from Keifi' and Odessa succeeded in enabling two of the trains with 2000 passengers to proceed. After ly hours tho stock of train firewood became exhausted, and a perfect pandemonium raged. The sufferings of the people were terrible. Sixty passengers, headed by Count Kapnist, started afoot and reached a station, opening up communication with Odessa. The Governor at once despatched sledges with food. Many passengers became delirious and were frost-bitten. It is feared that over a hundred have succumbed. The storm is abating. Eighteen thousand soldiers are still hard at work. The fate of the rest of the train at Razdyelnaia is unknown. THE TRANSVAAL. juondon, January 14. Fourteen hundred Boers at day--1 break on the 12th inst., attacked Zaurfontein and Kalfontein. They were repulsed and driven in an easterly direction, the cavalry pursuing "them. The Field Cornet was I captured and several were killed. The [ British casualties were six. Kalfontein was shelled - for six hours. The garrison of 110 maintained an exceptionally gallant defence. The Boers attacked Zeerust on the 7th tnst., but were repulsed. Six British were wounded. Colonel Boyes defeated the Boers at Seuekal, killing Commandant Duprez and eight burghers. There were no British losses. Lord Kitchener reports that three agents of the Orange Peace Committee were taken prisoners to Do Wet's laager near Lindley on the 10th. All were flogf ed by De Wet's orders. One British subject was shot. Several drafts of cavalry will sail from England for the Cape immediately. The Morning Post stales that tho raising of the Colonial Police has been temporarily abandoned, the War Office preferring the enlistment of Yeomanry. Rjlers nave appeared at Danislattgie, 2y miles north of Magtrsfuntein. Disloyalists are creating confusion by the circulation of false information respecting the movements of the raiders. The Irish Rifles surprised a laager Kopj°allen, near Yeutersburg road, capturing three hundred horses and a number of cattle. The Dordrecht and Wodehouse volunteers expelled the Boers from a strong position near Barkley East. The Boers retired on Cramberg, the Lancers pursuing. Mybe g, thr> commander escaped by seizing a native's valuable horse. The n "elegraph representative interviewed Dr. Leyds and Mr Fischer at Brussels. Both declare that the struggle will be continued, and they are confident that cho Boers will regain their independence. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, January 14. Jacky Underwood was executed at DubboVaol. Death was instantaneous. The New Zealand troops left by the Orient this afternoon via Brisbane. A party of New Zealanders aboard Mr Witheford's launch accompanied them down the harbor. The returning soldiers were cheered by the man-o'-warsmen as they passed the fleet. Later on the Britannic, with the Imperial men, got away, but will remain in the harbor till morning. She also will go to Brisbane. The Governor, Mr Barton, and other notables took farewell of them aboard the vessel. Brisbane, January 14. Arrangements have been made by which the Queenslanders will betaken off the Orient in the bay, and the vessel will be sent to New Zealand