WESTERN RAIDERS FORCED TO RETIRE.
SITUATION IN MIDLAND SECTION , w f QRAYi;. LORD METHUEN DRIVES DE LA v , .RE? SOUTHWARDS. V "ISIiXTH q>F A NEW ZEALAND . , ROUGH-RIDER. '.
Received Janaary 20j 4.38 pjn. ,.„ - London, January 19. — The advance of tbe western raiders 1 w checked, the Boers retiring to Calvinia, where the main commaodo remained. ' The situation in the midland section of the colony is grave.' 1 " • •>■ The Australian Bushmen participated with the Highlanders in the victory node* Colonel Gray, -at Ventersbnrg. ' One Britisher was dangerously wounded. Four* dead 1 Boers and two; wounded weed found, together with^ many riderless horses. ' •- - ■.!)'••" ■;..: Lord Methoen, to 4he westward of Tanngs, at&eked* and drove Dehißej, with a thousand nenvte* thef-aoutbward} losing two killed and five wonnded. •■ 1; The announcement of the disarmament of civilians came as a thunderbolt <to the disloyalists. The penalty for oonintTeution is fixed at seven years' imprison^ meni, or a fine at £600 with two years' hardlabonr, -'- • ' • Beoeived January 21, 4.52a.m, ' London, January l§.-^Qeneral Henry Colville is placed on^tha retared £j list from yesterday. J -' ■\ ■ \*< •->■ -• 1 v NewZeal^d T R^g^^^r,^ Martin iied at Pretoria. ojCjeftterio,'
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11660, 21 January 1901, Page 2
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185WESTERN RAIDERS FORCED TO RETIRE. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11660, 21 January 1901, Page 2
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