THE WAR.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9497, 28 November 1899, Page 2

THE WAR.

; THE -;COLONUL FORCES. THFA TREACHEROUS USE OF THE WHITE FLAG. . (Press Association—Copyright.) ':: CAPETOWN, Nov. 26. The New Zealand men met with a striking reception at Capetown, and are ut present encamped. After the arrival of the Canadian and Australian contingents they will all be welcomed by the Mayor. General Methuen remonstrated witli the Boer commander on his treachery in displaying the: white flag. Reconnaissances, have revealed two Lstrong Boer commandos with guns in the .'highlands, but none south of the Mooi River. '* ■ The British surprised the ,Boers at Willow Grange, and 80 were bayonet'ted.;.;,a h ■■■ :•; ; '. ; The. British lost three killed - : anu 44, wounded, chiefly owing .to the Boers' quick firing guns having a longer range than the British. ■Four hundred Cape Dutch, including the Magistrate at Barkley, have joined the Boers. •■.-'• . The disloyalists ■ have seized the. town of Lady Gray; arid there is a general movement in the district in favor of the Boers. v Commandant Grobler seized ten leading Britishers ;atColesburg, and threatens to shoot them if Van Ransburg is shot; •;' ' Mr. F. Knight, the Morning Post's special correspondent, was wounded by •a dumdum bullet at the battle of Belmont. ■•-' i . ; • •-■ .

The prisoners captured at Belmont that numerous imarksm'en 'were detached to pick off the officers and sergeants/ but were bewildered owing to the removal of distinguishing badges.'

SYDNEY, Nov. 27. The Governor has received, a cable that his brother, the Hon. Robt. Lygon, second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, was slightly wounded at Belmont.