SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2360, 3 May 1901, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

London, April 25

The Cape ' Times ' and other papers demand the suppression of the Afrikander Bond. They declare that the Bond's whole object is to secure non-tinality in the African settlement.

The ' Daily Chronicle ' publishes an extraordinary report to the effect that Boer agents, acting as cattle men, inoculated horses shipped for iSouth Africa from New Orleans with glanders and other diseases with the result that a hundred died on the voyage and others were destroyed on arrival at the Cape.

April 26. General Kitchener reports the capture of 113 Boers and a twelve-pounder Krupp. The 47 inch i;i!!i p-'.-i.-htlv capturr-d by Boers at lkiv,.t; ; > i„ r!l «', jUlK i destroyed: , Boers in ainhu.vi cpuu: i ... pn.-i at Badfonteir. and k;:.-d \[.. ,- i'-, li; ford. Ben Viljoen. wi.h 't'-.jv i;n::. ■• \-.w pom and two ha.i ■£'•'.»■ alongSteelport Valii-y. Ilea ....';•: waggons, destroyed a iiK-vsi \ ■■::...,-. -i captured at Colen-o, and u.-v a i\i. , ; gun. Col. Pulteney has oceupi-d .Nocv-u kaal, where about 100 burghers Mir rendered.

Colonel G. E Benson captured in Tantereberg ranges sixty-five Boers, a Krupp gun and a quantity of ammunition. t De Wet, with a few fo!lowers. was recently s-f n near VillL'rsdorp, on the southern side of the Vaal Biver. Prior to embarking on tm- longanro on then- return to Austra Australians wrecked the oince of the South African News, which stigmatised the ians as the scum of the earth.

for their liveliness in the town a few nights previously. The editor escaped through a window. Someone in the Provost-Marshal's office afterwards paid the damage.

In connection with Commandant Rresla's recent capture, the Boers tired after displaying the white flag, killing one trooper and also wounding three others. April 27. Lieut. Reid, with 20 Australian Bushmen, stealthily surrounded and fired at close range upon 42 Boers, south-east of Commissie Drift, Olifants River, at dawn on Thursday. The Boers, including Commandant Schroler, immediately surrendered, with a Maxim gun, a number of horses mules, waggons, and much ammunition.

Twelve Boers are reported killed elsewhere, 20 wounded and 47 cap tured.

General Kitchener, at Pardepkats, reports 4 Boers killed and 180 captured ; also 3000 cattle, 6000 sheep and many waggons.

Lieut.-General French shortly takes a sea voyage to recuperate his bad health.

General Plumer is refitting at Middleburg. April 29. Lieut. Reid's quick close fire into the Boer laager at Olifant's river deceived the enemy as to the number of the attacking force. Commandant Schroeder used the Maxim, but soon surrendered. Meanwhile, Markham's New Zealanders arrived and helped to prevent the enemy communicating with other commandos.

Reuter messages state that the surrenders to General Plumer include exLanddrost Munnik, the inciter of th« Gipe Dutch, also his son, the State engineer.

Schalkburgher and his Government have fled from Leydsdorp. Seventeen of Kruitzinger's commando looted a farm in the Craddock district and sprinkled strychnine in the food which they were unable to remove.

Twenty-five of the Prince of Wales's Light Horse kept 400 Boers at bay for •ight hours, 13 miles from Kroonstadt, killing 14 of the enemy. After their .mmunition was exhausted they were captured, but were subsequently released.

Boers blew up the railway in three places between Grnsspan and Belmont, and entered Belmont station in search of food, returning to kopjes when unsuccessful. General Lindon-Blood's movements in the Middleburg district resulted in large captures of .stock and transport and numerous surrenders. Commandant Schoeman, with a handful of followers, escaped. Affidavits signed at the Cape show 7 that Burns, a renegade Englishman, was the leader of the section of Kruitzinger's raiders wdio put strychnine in food at Cradock.

The Maxim captured from Comman dant Schroeder was one of Br Jame son's suns.

Kitchener's scouts, under Colonel Grenfell. surprised and captured Van Resburg's laager at Klipdam, killing 7 and capturing 37, together with 8000 rounds of ammunition and many wagions. Another column reports that the enemy lost 3 kiln d, 58 prisoners, and 57 surrendered. One quick-firer was captured.

April 30. Botha is at Ermelo and Dartnell's column is moving thither. Boers are surrendering in small parties in all quarters. Colonel Grenfell has taken further prisoners and 38,500 cartridges have lately been discovered.

Several official documents and a large number of bank notes have been found at Rooscnkaal. Colonel Byng, when fighting south of Wepener, killed five and captured two.

Twenty Boers surrendered at Lydenburg.

The magistrate's staff, with 20 polie-', at Malalatui, Zululand, repulsed 400 Boers. Five of the defenders were killed a'nd two wounded. Two Boers were captured. Boers destroyed the railway, midway between Boschrand and Geneva. An engine and two carriages of an ambulance train were derailed, but nobody was injured. A force of Victorians under Major Henniker inflicted losses on Commandant Malan in the Cradock district, Cape Colr*y.

Major Dumoulin's column has reached Aliwai North after scouring the south-east of Orange River. They brought in 30 prisoners 60,000 sheep, tOOU cattle, 10U waggons, 300 horses, and SOU refugees. May 1. Details of the fight at Malatine, Zuluhnd, show that Magistrate C. A. Wheelwright and 26 Europeans marched, at night, a mile and a half to meet Levers' commando, numbering 400, po.-t"d at Nk(;'iu'"uinek, commanding tile •>'!:..!,> range and a portion of Ulun■h p;,ii:i. The eie-niy used expanding bull'-:-, !.;u w« r- driven at doybreak to [ "■'■■■ -:':. : .:: i • ••' :::•• rang". Th-: ibili.>h !' x ' -■:-': :■:'■■ g tb" ]>•>: > - skil'.lli .llillg ' ' :: "- ' 'i''U I. ■:!:'.■ !!g independently. 1 ' : ' •!•.'. h C. , 1>"..-.'ii.-- ! OCCUITc ll ■■;■■} '■ ■ A: N!ioi:g"i!l Hill ' • ■ '■• : '-da and tiie i'.iji r.-, '"_ ' '.'■_■■ - ' ; ; ■■ ■" d'-.ei. ( lelieral "i «--''■-•■ L.j (ii-.:iiigui,he,l L ll •. -, 11 - SelVf.