THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

Lake County Press, Issue 980, 19 September 1901, Page 7

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

LONDON, September 12. Brevet-colonel Scobefl has been promoted to a colonelcy in recognition of his services. There are indications that Botha has been receiving rifles, ammunition, and recruits overland from the neighborhood of Delagoa Bay. As a result of a ssirch at the instance of the British Consul large quantities of ammunition and other contraband have been seized in the vicinity of Lorenzo Mm-quer. Several arrests have been made. Several of Scheeper's force declare that they merely had time to loosen the rails at Nelspoort in July last when the train bumped past safeiy. Hie driver walked back to ascertain the cause. The Boers thereupon poured in a volley, capturing the train.

Major Hook, with a handful of police, defended the Herschel Residency in Cape Colony against Fouree and 300 men. The latter had three killed and several wounded.

Three hundred and fifty Boers surrounded Major Marshall's force, consisting of the Twelfth Mounted Rifles, at Rchelinck. The party were in a tight corner until Colonel Barker sent the Yeomanry to relieve them.

Scheeper's force are burning the houses of all those who are serving in the Cape Burgher Guards. His commando consist almost entirely of recruits from the Cape Colony districts. The Dordrecht Volunteers surprised a party of Boer officers in a farmhouse, killing two and wounding General Smuts, who managed to escape. Colonel Barker discovered 7,000 buried Martini cartridges in the Brandwater basin, and immense quantities of grain that had been concealed in the caves in the district. General Methuen defeated Vantonder and De la Rev at Marico, killing eighteen and capturing forty-one of the enemy.