ENGAGING DE WET.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright. (Received- Jan. 31, 9.17 a.m.) LONDON, Jam. 30. A .party of Boers attacked a train standing -at a station on the Delagoa. line. The driver of the train shot Commandant Liebrandt dead while he was tampering with the vacuum brake, and the rest of the Boers then fled. General Smitih-Dorrien. has; dispersed the Boers around Carolina. The British had four killed and eighteen, wounded. General.Knor engagedi-De Wet at a place forty miles north, of Thajbanchu, to prevent an attempt to reimvade Cape Colony.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7013, 31 January 1901, Page 3
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91ENGAGING DE WET. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7013, 31 January 1901, Page 3
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