THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 189, 1 August 1900, Page 2

THE WAR.

-* [Br Elbotiuc t # (PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION) %^ OPERATIONS JNJHE TMNBVML GENERAL IiOTHAB BBTBEAT. V ; HIS FOLLOWERB BTABVING AMD ; \, RAGGED. AN IMPORTANT CORRECTION, BADKN-POWBLL BESIEGED AT Jggggg] RUSTENBUBG. g^^H Received 31, 8.28 ajn. Lovdoh, July 30. Commandant-General Both* arrived at Machadodorp with 100 His followers ore starving, bootless, and scattered over the veiduggggggl hurrying northwards. """e^^H Lord Roberts explains tint only train was captured recently at Boots val, with 100 men of toe Welsh fail. H lien, not Highlanders m previeuefr V announced. Commandant Da Ltrey, oommanding a Urge force, is still besieging A General Btd n-Powoll at Ruitenburf. gfl General Hickman, who was patched from Pretoria with a talieJggggg] column, reconnoitred southwards, returned, finding Do Lwey'e positiojggggga too etrong. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A VICTORIA OROSB HERO, Received 81,8.62 a.m. Lokdoi, July 80. Oaptein Oonwyn Mansel-Jones, of ~ the Prince of Wales' Own, lately serr> ing with the British Central Africa Rifles, has been awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry at Tugela, PRESENTATION TO TBI HERO OF i MAFSKING. WsLLisatos, July 81. In connection with the fund betaf raised by the officers of the Ornl Service to make a presentation to General Baden-Powell in commemorv tion of his defence of Mafeking, the shilling subscriptions of pest end telegraph otßcors throughout the colony amount so far to £7l. NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT* A GREAT NUMBER LAID UP.^^H Wkllujotos, July S^^^H A private letter states that 4^ggggggga cent, of the First Contingent *^ggggggga date of writing were laid up wounds and disease. g^^^H Major Jowsey has joined the i lory's stall', in consequenoe of ' agreement wish Colonel Robin. The writor highly commend gggggggggg Australian Army Medical Corps, uudor Colonel Williams, has. nejftgggggggß

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