THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4259, 19 January 1901, Page 7

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

C/ BLE NEWS.

tWITBD PEKBS ASSOCIATION. —BY ELECTBIO TKLFj'J EACH.— COPYBIGHT.

i;(>')’i iA’.s tih’.k.atknjm; TACTICS. i Beeeived January 18, 10.-if) p.in.) LONDON, January 18. Two of tins largest, Boer commandoes ;ir<- station.d at Roo-cnlial, tweety-five mill’s west of Lydenlmnc in Die Cist ol the Transvaal, and in the, western Mag-lie-.lici’H, west of Bretona. (t is expected that Oenend i.otdia is orf'ani'-int' a raid on Natal. IJOKU OIMOHATIONS IN CAl'iS colon v. Dice eived ijannai’.v 18, 10.0) 11 .i 11 .) LONDON, January 18. A pal ml of I’rinee Allred s (Lt-tnls la lohinlee,’ i.’inji, <’m 1 ilet) at Capelown ) ■n I Tcnderei I, alter two hours’ fi 5.'111 i ltf£ , near Stey n,h urn, seventy miles south, west of Aliwal 510r tli, Tho men were stripped, and afterwards riJea-f'l. Three hundred liner-, looted Aberdeen, in Cape Colony, lot) miles north-wed, oi I'orl Kli'/.aheth, but retreated on the advanee o t 100 jirili-'li I mops. The residents :1 ‘ha Cape pin.nsnla, wdh Ihe eseepiion of nt.’ieials and soldiers, have In en lorinddeti to possess : rms or ammunition.

Ml it the Ist of I'Vhrn.iry Ihe whole of Cape Colony, won the eneepticn id a few towns, will he under martial law. It is intended to land ad lildonai nav:d at CapeCov.'.

A liner commando ha;; appcarrd in latlle Nnnnpqnaland, in the extreme north-west of Cape Colony. A! ISCELCA.NKOUS. i Deceived January IK, 10. hi p.nt.) !.!)M)()N, .January IS. herd Klleiiener reports tha l '- there arc lliree llionsainl Doers at Carolina, in me on-• of (In Trull e. a.it. General Colville.; 1!<MlIX lus been engaged with the enemy at- VuotonikTslieek. Tin' Doers •'•ere driven oil’ with in.>vy I o s.. William Slevn, a, peace delegate won ivits deputed to interview the Deers at Standerton, in (ho Transvaal, was arrested and sent tr Diet Hot ief, near tn-' Swa/.ilnnd frontier, on a charge of treason. The systematic collection rf Doer families and stock at convenient centres is steadily proceeding. Voluntary refugees are given advantages over ianiilies whose heads ale Hlill with eonunandees in (ho field. The refugees are mostly ae(|iiiesrent to this course of action. Air )?.. AV. Martin, foreman at .Messrs I?, and 10. Tingey’s cstablislimcnt in this city, received a, private cable yesterday, in. reply to inquiries made by him, stating (hat his brother. Trooper T. C). Martin, died at Pretoria on the 1 Ith msc presumably from enteric.