GENERAL BOTHA SURPRISES DE WET.
REBEL LEADER NARROWLY ESCAPES CAPTURE.
GOVERNMENT FORCES TAKE 260 PRISONERS.
Pretoria, November 13.
It is officially announced that General Botha, by a forced night march at.Marguard, east of Winburg, in Central Orangia, surprised De Wet's commando, capturing two laagers—a temporary defensive encampment formed by a circle of waggons—and taking 260 prisoners.
Colonels Lukin and Brets, commanding other commandoes, failed to reach their allotted points in time, otherwise there would have been a good chance of surrounding and capturing Do Wet and his 2000 followers.
General Muller, one of the rebel leaders whose commando was defeated by the police on the 7th inst., has been captured wounded. Cape farmers are sending fruit for the wounded in the British hospitals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15767, 16 November 1914, Page 8
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