BOER CASUALTIES AT ZUURFQNTEIN.
4.TTACK ON HEX RIVER PASS EXPECTED, CONCENTRATION MOVEMENT IN PROGRESS.
Received January 18. 8.59 a.m. London, January. 17. — The Boers sustained sixty casualties at Zuurfontein. Eaalfontein rari short of food and j ammunition. Ten thousand Cape Town Guards have been enrolled. It is expected that Commandant Hurtzog will attack the Hex RiV3r pass, which is strongly held. Commandant Beyer, with twelve hundred men and five guns, continues trekking north-east. Since their defeat at Krugersdorp a big concentration movement is in progress among the Bow -a in Bethel und Ermelo districts. A hundred Boers looted Sutherland and retreated northwards. Each of Lord Kitchener's fighting scouts has been provided with twe spare horses, which a hundred Matabele are riding or leading for them*. Lord Kitchener has transferred 20,000 troops southward. Lieutenant A. C. Doxat, of the Imperial Yeomanry, a stock broker,' son of Mr Edmund Doxat, Chairman of Dalgety & Co., has been awarded the Victoria Cross for returning under heavy fire to rescue a trooper who loßt his horse during the engagement at Zeerust.
Received January 18, 8.47 a.m.
Melbourne, January 18. — Lieutenant Walker and Troopers Orange and Scott, New Zealanderfe, are aboard the Damascus, ,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11658, 18 January 1901, Page 3
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197BOER CASUALTIES AT ZUURFQNTEIN. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11658, 18 January 1901, Page 3
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