DE WET AT WEPENER.
ROBERTS WILL GO HOME THIS
MONTH.
Per Press Association. — By Electbio
Telegraph — Copyright.
Received October 9, 0.35 a.m.
London, October 8.
Farmers bringing produce to Johannesburg and purchasing foodstuffs were suspected of supplying commandos. Sudden wholesale arrests were made in the Market Square on Saturday.
Small flying columns of Boers are moving southward of Wepener, drawing supplies from the farmers and compelling them, when laden, to retreat to Basutoland, lest the columns should be impeded.
De Wet is said to be in the vicinity of Wepener.
Two of the Australian Mounted were captured near Rouxville.
A New Zealander, A. C. Adams, was slightly wounded at Vlakfontein-.
The Daily News says that Lord Roberts leaves South Africa the laßt week in Ootober.
Thesrepresentatives of colonial troops to visit England will be limited to 6000 men. Received October 9, 9 a.m. London, Ootober 8.
Four thousand Boers who retired from Pilgrim's Rest took four Long Toms, eight Pompoms, and fourteen others. Their Long Tom ammunition is almost exhausted.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7048, 9 October 1900, Page 3
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170DE WET AT WEPENER. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7048, 9 October 1900, Page 3
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