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Southland Times, Issue 15184, 14 March 1902, Page 2

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18_ BRITISH CASUALTIES AT TWEEBOSCH DE WET AND STEYN ON THE MOVE DETAILS OF THE BOTHASBERG ACTION: NEW ZEALANDERS SAVE A POMPOM • London, March 13. Received 13th, 10.2G p.m. Partial casualty lists of the Tweebiseh engagement show that four officers and 60 men were killed ; 10 officers and 108 men wounded, .and 200 are missing. Advices from Heilborn state that De Wet and Steyn on the night of the Oth crossed the railway northwards of '•Volvehock, going westward. Bri tish columns were almost in touch with them. The Boer commandant at Odendai, Captain Vanderwolt, was killed in a skirmish at Peaston. Received 14th, 12.41 a.m. Reuter gives details of the Vrede fight. The Boers twice tried unsuccessfully to rush through the Queensland Bushmen's outpost line and th..n attacked the New Zealanders, led by De Wet and Wessels. Manic Botha rushed the left post, killing five aud wounding six. He then worked along the flank and captured another post. Afterwards the men forming the posts on the right flank fell back on Rimington's column. His pompomservers being killed, two New Zealanders, under heavy fire, wheeled the pompom down a gully and overturned it, thus saving it from capture. Lord Kitchener, addressing the New Zealanders, praised their gallant resistance against overwhelming odds. The Standard's Brussels correspondent states that Botha's move southwards and his ordering Delarey to advance was done to divert attention from De Wet and intended to enable the latter to reorganise. If Botha was attacked by a superior force he was to enter Swaziland under a secret treaty.