THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12622, 3 October 1901, Page 5

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

THE PRISONERS IN CEYLON. AN ATTEMPTED ESCAPE. ' WAR MATERIAL EOR THE BOERS.] J • ,ii j v BOTHA'S RAID. THREE COMMANDANTS KILLED. XJnited Press Association—By Electria • Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Oct. 1. The -women of Vryheid lined 1 the streets after Major Gough's disaster at BJotod' River Poort and jeered the released British troops when they arrived with their wounded and! dead.. The offer of the Bo era on parole in, Ceylon to serve in the British Amy outside Southj Africa has been accepted, and 170 are drill* ing and will serve in India. Several Boer prisoners in' Ragawa Ceylon, tunnelled 50ft in an attempt to escape. The tunnel was discovered, and! the men were sent to the Welikadde Gaol'.: The Brussels correspondent of the "Morning Pest" states that sailing vessels landed quantities of contraband of war *at .Lam-, bert's Bay, in Cape Colony. ATTACK ON AN OUTPOST* BOER RAIDS IN ZULULAND, LORD KITCHENER'S WEEKLY RE« PORT. (Received Oct, 2, 10.37 p.m.) LONDON, Oct,. 2. A marauding band of fifty on, Sept. 2T attacked a sanali outpost near Glencoe Junction. The Boars raided tbe Sequitu, district in Zuluiand, capturing much, stock and killing thirty natives. Lord Kitchener's weekly xeport, excluding the Fort Italia losses,. states that 27 Boers havo been killed, 24 wounded and 274 taken prisoners, white 48 ihave surmidered; 138 rifles, 19,400 rounds of amtniunitioai, 189 waggons, 3270 horses audi 11,260 cattle have been captured*

THE FIGHT AT, PORT, ITALIA^ THREE BOER QOMMAKDANTS JIILLED, A NATAL POST CAPTURED* . {Received Oct, 2, 11 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 2. The "Standard " and the "Times" core* plain that there is no sigo that the Govern-, ment appreciates the necessity £o£ jflfeyigor* ous effort to end the war. The fighting at Italia lasted jiineteeflhours. Besides Botha and Grobelaar, Commandants Emmett, Danhauser, Oppemanjj Scholz and Potgieter participated, ■ Tin last three were killed.. There was ien lours] fighting at Port Prospect* A large force, of Boers surprised..and captured a post at One Tree Hill, Sfiar (Dundee. The Hill was held by a composite which, made a stiff fight.

CAPTURE OF A CONVOYS A BOER ATTACK REPULSED* (Received Oct. 3, 12.7 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. Louis Botha has reached Bothosdorp. The Boers captured a large convoy aJ Melmoth, Zululand, on Sunday, killing six native police. De la Rey and Kemp, with a strong force, attacked Colonel Kekewich at Moiuree, in the Rustenburg district, on Sept 25, but were repulsed. STRANDED TROOPERS. SYDNEY, Oct. 2. A number of soldiers, claiming to be natives of New Zealand 1 , are strands*! in Sydney. * Tito mea enlisted! in South Africa, and were given transport passages . to Sydney. This New Zealand Government! decline's to be responsible for the payment of the balance of their passages home. (Received Oct. 3, 12.30 a.m.) In the Assembly, in reply to a question whether he knew the number of iNew Zealand soldiers stranded in Sydney, and if he would try to induce Mr Secjdon to make arrangements for their return to New Zealand, the Premier said that the Government would assist the men as far as pos' .. sible, and make full inquiries in the matter