NEWS OF DE WET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11918, 17 December 1900, Page 5

NEWS OF DE WET.

BREAKING THROUGH THE BRITISH LINKS.

CAPTURE OF A BOER GUN.

LONDON, December 14.

(Received Dec. 15, at 6.9 p.m.)

It is feared that Do Wet's force of 2000 will scatter to their farms, and possibly rendezvous further off.

December 16.

(Received Deo. 17, at 0.50 a.m.)

General Knox drove Do WJet and 3000 Boers to the f lnibajichu-Ladybrand line, which the British held.

The Boers, assisted by a force operating from the north, desperately attacked the British, but the enemy lust considerably while breaking through. Portions of the Boers are still unable to puss (lie British. One 15-poimdei was captured at Dowels-

dorp and one pompom with several waggons of ammunition. Twenty-two prisoners were taken.

SENDING OUT REINFORCEMENTS.

SOUTH AUSTRALIANS RETURNING TO THE FRONT.

VOLUNTEERS OFFERING TO RE-

PLACE INVALIDED. ADELAIDE, December 16. (Received Doc. 17, at 1.8 a.m.) Twenty-two soldiers, invalided on furlough, have returned to South Africa. Volunteers are offering to take the pHcws of any others who are not sufficiently iecovered to return.

MOUNTED MEN GOING. tnvnml , A . „. LONDON, December 15. (Received Dec. 16, at 4.30 p.nrr.) Eight hundred mounted infantry from AMerehot and 200 of the Army Medical Corps have been ordered to prepare to go to South Africa. Four hundred mounted troops are also being sent from Malta.

tut? TDTMTMrwr n-p TMrnrTTim THE IRLAIMkNI OF INVALIDED. LONDOX, December 15. (Received Dec. 16, at 4.30 p.m.) In the Ho,se of Lords, wit.! reference to Lord Um-iMgtons complaints of the mannev in which wounded colonial soldiers were sent home, Lord Raglan further explained that all wounded and invalided 1 .. , . . , , .i would liereuftev receive comforts and second , j-, class travelling. Lord Carrington ex- ,• a pressed satisfaction at this. j a.