THE CAPE FRONTIER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIII, Issue 275, 6 December 1899, Page 3

THE CAPE FRONTIER.

THE WODDER RIVER BATTLE. SOME TERRIFIC FIGHTtNG. UESTORATION OF COMMUNICATION CAPTURE OP A BOER LAAGER. ANOTHER WAKNING TO DISLOYALISTS. CAPETOWN, Deo. 3. At the baflo of Modder KiTer, the Boera were very strongly entrenched on both banks, and alao on ao island ia the middle of the river. Tbo enemy were especially strong on the northern bank, and concealed amongst mimoaa trees. Tho righting was terrific, especially during the afternoon. The Briti-h droea the Boers across, and cleared the northern side, compelling; them to retire. A large British force is no* across the river. Mr Glcichen, one of tho officers wounded at Modder river, bad a bullet embedded in his ueck. The damage done by the Boers along the main trunk railway line jast After (he declaration of war has b;en repiirecl by the Briti h engineers. Communication has now been ra-estib-listed, both by rail and telegraph, from Capetown to Modder liver, a distance o 623 miles. The Bechnanaland police, on the 28th ult., captured a laager west of Kimberley Barnard, a member of the Vo]ksra«d has been title I in action. I Mr Saner, tho. Commissioner of Public I "Works, has warned 700 Afrikanders at Dordrecht that though Great Britain is generous, she would enact a terrible punishment for disloyalty. It was hopeless for tha farmers to resiat overwhelming force?. There ara extunsive disloyal »reas in the vicinity o( Colesburg, Burghersdorp, and Middlehnrg. Two thousand Afrikanders at, Venttr-tad aloae responded to the commmdeering csll. . ■