BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 221, 13 November 1900, Page 3

BOER WAR.

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BBTREAT OF THE BOERS FBOM FBEDERIOKBTAD. . FUGITIVES MOWN DOWN WITH SHRAPNEL. FEW ESCAPE THE INFERNO. ENTERTAINMENT FOB COLONIAL TKOOPS IN ENGLAND. (FIR FBim ASSOOIUIOK.) Received 12, 8.55 a.n. Details of General Barton's recent defeat of Commandant De Wet at Frederickstad show that 2000 Boers were engaged. After heavy fighting, many of them streamed from their coyer northwards. Shrapnel burst freely {overhead, mowing down the fugitives from three sides, and few escaped the inferno. General Buller has resumed command at Aldershot. Great preparations are being made to entertain the colonial troops in England. Visits are being arranged to the chief manufacturing centres and to the Arsenal at Woolwich. The Queen will review the troops at Windsor, and a special service will be held at St. Paul's. THE BOTHAVILLB PRISONERS. &ENEBAL BULLER'B OPINION OF THE CAMPAIGN. Beceired 12,10.57 aja. London, November 12. The prisoners captured at Betnarille included 28 Artillerists and forty rebels. General Buller in accepting the reedom of Southampton declared the irmy had eneeuntered far greater lifficulties is South Africa than were previously experienced against any livilised enemy. The Beers range of rision was two miles better than the tverage Englishman's. - The Boers tbility to converse with the Kaffirs was Aether great advantage. He was eonident no other nation could have contacted a similar campaign successfully, IBPULSE OF DBLARSrS OOMMANDO. JOBS WOMBN PROTEST AGAINST DEPORTATION AND BURNING FARMS. AUSTRALIAN COMPLAINTS. (Beoeived 13,0.10 a.m.) Londox, November 12. Colonel Flumer repulsed 400 of Dearey's commando near Rustenburg. Eight hundred Boer women at Faarl, fcpe Colony, have protested against he .barbarities of the English in the leportation of Boer women and the turning of farms. Several Australian troopers, in letters o the English newspapers, complain of Ming Bent home steerage. BOER GENERALS KILLED. SN7MAH DEFEATED. PHILD7POLIS RB-OOOUPIID,' REPULSE OF BOERS. LORD KITCHENER'S MOONLIGHT OHAKGE. ILLNESS OF GENERAL BADENPOWELL. Received 13, 0.10 a.m. Loraow, November 12, General Fourie and Commandant ?rinsloo, one of several leaders of that lame, were killed, and General Grobeaar was wounded in the recent fighting n the eastern Trantvaal. Lord Methuen surprised General Snyman, of Mafeking fame, near Lichienburg, inflicting loss. The British again re-occupied Philippolis after four hours fighting. Subsequently they badly repulsed a Boer ittempt to reseize the town. Lord Kitchener's Hoasars made a moonlight charge near Middleburg and sabred many. Next day Lord Kitshener was reinforeei and routed the memy. General Badon-Powell is suffering From enteric.