The Boer Raiders.
THE ENGAGEMENT AT BELFAST. {Per Unit-'! I'rezs Association.— Copyright.) Received January 16, 8.10 a.m. London, January 15. Fifteen thousand time-expired British soldiers are beini? detained in India owing to a suspicion that relief will be required for Booth Africa. It is estimated that there are 2000 Boers between Clan william and Sutherland. Another commando is advancing from Beaufort West." All are splendidly mounted with plenty of spare horses and are extremely bittar at the refusal of the Cape Dutch to rise in rebellion. Alter the engagement at Belfast on the 7th seventy-two men belonging to the Royal Irish and Shropshire regiments were missing. A determined attack made on a convoy proceeding to Vryheid was repulsed at Blood River. The Boers are raiding the farms five miles from Johannesburg. Lord Roberta ha 3 indefinitely postponed the acceptance of the Freedom of the City of London owing to the # present unhappy circumstances of the of the war.
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Hastings Standard, Volume V, Issue 1425, 16 January 1901, Page 3
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