TRANSYAAL WAR.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 833, 27 December 1900, Page 2

TRANSVAAL WAR.

London, Dec. 23. Scotsmen on the Band have formed a corps to be known as the Scottish Horse. Toe Marquis of Tullibardine commands. Haiders have broken the "main trunk railway in three places north of De Aar. The Eaw Department has taken the precaution* to remove the records of the Treason Tribunal, which lately sat at Colesberg. It is officially announced that the invasion of Cape' Colony has been checked. The invaders received little assistance from the inhabitants, and colonists have been aimed and are assisting the British. The Boers who cut the railway south of De Aar are now being pursued. General Kitchener has for.ned a now column to operate in Cape Colony. The casualty returns of Clements' force at Nooilgedacbt Uiver show that 50 were killo I, 153 Wounded, and that 13 are missing. A small mobile detachment shelled 3000 Boers south of Stauderton, and routed another force to the eastward, inflicting heavy loss. y The War Office has purchased 50,000 horses and mu'es in Kaisas for South Africa. The Magliesberg Hills have been cleared of Boers. Genural Kitchener is at Do Aar directing operations against the raiders. There are 00,000 hoi-se3 belonging .to the Dutch witbin the districts -proclaimed under martial law. ! These have been the source of Do Wet's supplies, and the raid was intended to remove them. .'•- "