THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4493, 22 October 1901, Page 5

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

BOERS IN CAPE COLONY. LONDON. October 20. Arthur J. Vogan, an Australian scout, was the man who captured Commandant Schcepers, who is recovering. Commandants Mantz and Thoron have burned many loyalists’ farms in retail?, tion for executions, and threaten more cruel reprisals. A small cqmmando appearing at Sa!danha Bay, about seventy miles north of Capetown, tho residents boarded a passing steamer, and signalled a gunboat, which shelled and dispersed tho Boors, MISCELLANEOUS. ' (Received October 22, 0.47 a.m.) LONDON. October 21. ■ Several hundred Boers arc above Babanango, twenty miles from Fort Itala, in a starving condition. Commandant Fouche has issued a proclamation that- natives found on farms without passes from their masters will ho shot as spies. A Beer named Lewis has been tried and shot at Potchefstroom for complicity in the murder of two surrendered soldiers ; also for connection with tho murder of Kaffirs ap Proberakstad. Canadian scouts, after a sharp fight, captured a laager containing food and ammunition and several Boers northwest of Balmoral. A local force fought Vanzyl’s Commando in rough country eastward of Vryburg, from dawn to neon on tho 18th instant. Four wore killed, including two rebels, and several wounded. Nino Boors were captured at Buffialsliock on tho 16th instant, • including A r andenvalt, a late Lamldrost. Haasbrook, a member of tho Vryburg Divisional Council, has been sentenced to five years I ''imprisonment for’.inviting tho Boors to invade tho district. Tho following is an extract from a loiter written by Trooper Ellis .to his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Ellis, and a portion of which ’.was published, by the “Taranaki Herald”:—“The Taranaki section is not tho worst in tho Contingent. AVe have had one man show j Ihejii what pluck is. Baker, from El., thafti, got hit. pretty.badly in the should-;, or, but ho crawled into a better position and kept on firing till he was too weak to reload his rifle. Ho lay out c ll a kopje nearly ail night before he got any help, and when ho was'at last got at, he was fill smilch and blood A splendid little follow. A counlo of days after ho was wounded,, he catno down tbo linos duping: tho midday halt with a blanket aroundhim, smiling, and as lively as over. The, wound ho got would have killed half tho men in tho regiment.” Trooper Baker’s father, Mr G, E. Baker,. Hyps] at Palmers! on North) '