BOER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 23, 19 October 1901, Page 3

BOER WAR.

GENERAL ITEMS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) per pkess association p London, October 17. j Five hundred Boars, under several I Commandants, are advancing south via I Greatbfrg Valley, looting and recruit- , ing. Some reached Sildana Bay and others Hopefield South, a township I I some miles inland from the Bay. Tbe ! I British are pressing them hard. ( The sentences of hanging passed , upon Field-Cornet J. S. Kruger for rebellion, and Lieutenant Breda fc train wrecking at B9thulia and murdering a native, have been confirmed, The sentences on three others belongto Lotter's commando have been commuted to imprisonment for life. De Larey and Kemp are northwards of the Magliesburg hills. Theron, adjutant to Commandant Roos, Lieutenant Obervolgen, and Field Coronet "Vandermere, and eighty men have been ciptured on the Orange frontier. The Orange Light Ho;s* captured 18 Boers at Kotbsrg, in Caps Colony. Commandant Fouche is withdrawing northwards after flogging farmers, looting farms, and shooting three n itives. Paris, O torer 17. E!ofF, Mr Kruget's srmdson, and a party were hisstd a' a Paris thr afire for wearing evens' dr. ss wli'p their countryman weiv limiting. They hurriedly withdraw from the theatre. Brigadier-General Sir Henry Rawlinson engaged Commandant Beyers on Monday neir Frankfort,causing twenty j casualties and cipturing the Boer's transport. I Colonel Rimington on Monday eap- ' tuoed a envoy ot Villiersdorp, killing | three men. BOER LEADERS KXROUTED. AN ELUSIVE ENEMY. Received 18. 11 pro. London, Oitob»r 18. Breda and Field-Comet Kruger have ' baen executed at Cradock. It is believed in Natal that Botha, with a few followers, broke through i the British cordon at Piet Retief and ' escapsd north. The troops are gradu- ' ally surrendering Pong.ola Bosch, but small groups of Boers are able to elude the closest pursuit. A BOER RAIDING FOROE. Received 19, 0.53 a m. London, October 18. Fighting occurred in the Twentyfour Streams and Piquetberg districts 1 on the 16th. Five British were killed, ] including a ciptain of the 16fch Lancers. ] A later message states that raiders attacked district trnopi in Piquetberg. ' Lieutenant-Cnlo- 1 Wyndbam sent l two squadrons of Lancers to assist, and ] compellrd the Boer sto retire, with five ' casualtifs. ,