LORD ROBERTS'S INVASION OF THE TRANSVAAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 100, 9 June 1900, Page 2

LORD ROBERTS'S INVASION OF THE TRANSVAAL.

STEYN angry with kruger. BOERS MAKING A STAND EAST OF PRETORIA. SUPERB OHARGE OF THE GORDONS. THE CAPTURE OF THE IRISH YEOMANRY. (Received 8, 8.57 a.m.) London, June 7. Ex-President Steyn, who is encamped eaet of Kroonstad, telegraphed his strong disapproval of President Kruger's premature departure. He commands a strong force and threatens the British communications.

The Boers claim thai; a portion of the railway south of the Vaal River has been destroyed.

The British prisoners are being removed to Nooitgedaoht, an unhealthy spot in the valley of the Elands River. The Boers are making a stand at Hatherley, about eight miles east of Pretoria, wheie, it is believed, General Botha commands eight thousand men. The Gordons' superb bayonet charge was a feature of the operations round Johannesburg. The captured Yeomen include three i gentlemen's companies. Hardly a prominent family in Dublin or Belfast is not affected. Received 8,11.30 p m. London, June 8, " Colonel Spragge's casualties were nineteen killed (including Sir J. E. Power, bart.) and 29 wounded (including the Earl of Langford). TWO TRAINS CAPTUBED. I THE BIGGEST "OATOH" GETS AWAY. (Received 9, 1.16 a.m.) London, June 8, When Lord Roberts was entering Pretoria, three trains were qn the point of leaving. Two were captured, but the third (said to be laden with prisoners, horses, and gold) escapsd. Oa the previous night a number of prisoners were directed to entrain, but refused, and then disarmed the guard and captured the commandant, THE BRITISH PRISONERS. MANY OF THE ENEMY CAPTURED. (Received 9,1.20 a.m.) London, June 8. A thousand British prisoners are penned in a barbed-wire eiidosure on the open veldt at Nooitgedacht, Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the war correspondent, statrs that many gucs and several hundred Boer officers and met were, captured at Pretoria. The town was found intact.