BRITON V. BOER
MORE LIVES WASTED. THE TENDER MERCY OF THE BOER FOR THE NATIVE. BOERS CLOSE TO MOSSEL BAY. INDUCEMENT TO JOIN .THE SCOTTISH HORSE. [United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] London, Jan. 21. _ The Boers had seven men killed and forty wounded in the fighting which recently took place at Blaaklaagte in Barkly West district. Some native police whom the Boers captured in the neighbourhood of Willowmore were shot. Kruitzinger’s and Scheeper’s commandos are advancing on Uniondale and Oudsthorn, south-west of Willowmore, and not far from tho coast, south of Cape Colony, at Mossel Ba)i For the regiment of Scottish Horse, which is being formed at Durban, arrangements are completed under which recruits approved by agents in Australian ports will be offered a free passage to South Africa. Three hundred horses and mules, which were commandeered by the British in the Carnarvon district, have been paid for.
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Southland Times, Issue 14852, 23 January 1901, Page 2
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149BRITON V. BOER Southland Times, Issue 14852, 23 January 1901, Page 2
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