A DASHING EXPLOIT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 96, 10 May 1900, Page 4

A DASHING EXPLOIT.

[The s' hv of the captuve f a wain by Captain Henness/, of thu Cape Police, and Captain Ti—rer, of Mor tmorencys is that of onr of the most dashing and successful e. >loits of tiie < > >v[paign. The two o' 1 irs t-olJieu [the line from Ee f '~ l io ti" th r r

close • Spilngfonte . station. " r i' t then advanced ■' > the pLforn er cover of dfkness, In the waifcj 'groom they found Johannesburg burghers, tl--ee Creeks and three I aliars, who weie disarmed and s ured. Captain n \7rner i'an; encounteied two German bu ghe' . on the p'-.tform, ove?' awing ar" di vming them. Seeing a train siding in the 3 itrd, the officers inte; /iew 1 the driver, who was an Englishman ,f pioDoer proclh ities. He •..as incli eel . o vesl«\ but a sight of a if,o!/er rbtuned his submission. Wii'ain a few minutes ths train, consisting of the engine and 23 t, ucfo-, some Jcden with provisions, guns, and air munition, was steaming towards Bethulie, which was safely reached. Before lea\isg Springfontjin, the plucky pair interviewed the station master, claiming the buildings and rolling stci'k as captured by Gatacre's Division, thus forest,Hing General Pole-GWw and the Guards.