A TRAIN HELD UP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 9035, 2 January 1901, Page 3

A TRAIN HELD UP.

SPECLAL DEFENCE CORPS ' RAISED AT CAPE.

(Received January 2, 8.41 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 1. Two hundred men belonging to commandos invaded the eastern .portion of Cape Colony and stopped a train containing sixty of Prince Alfred's Volunteer Guard returning from the front, and forty women and [children, between Rosmead and Sherbourne. The soldiers fought until they expended their ammunition,and were then captured. One officer and three men were wounded. The Boers stripped the men of their arms and ammunition and released them. They burned the carriages. The looters went in the direction of Middleburgh. All traffic on the line has been suspended. Troops i have been sent to the spot.'v The Government of Cape Colony, owing to this raid, have issued a special appeal to loyalists, asking them to join the defence corps, repel taV invasion, and guard the lines of communication. The term of enrolment is three months, at the usual colonial "pay, and service begins on Thursday next. General Knox, after a fight, re-occupied SenekaL '

Colonel Halkett, operating near Magersfontein, captured one thousand horses. The correspondent of the Daily News at the Hague states that Kruger is wavering. Wessels and Wohnarans, the Boer delegates, favor peace on any tolerable terms. Dr Leyds denies that resistance will be continued to the bitter end. A Boer ammunition waggon at Senekal exploded. Four men were killed. The daughter of Commandant Haasbrook was wounded.