ADVANCING SOUTH.
DEATH SENTENCES. BRITISH CAPTURES. United Press Association — fty ElecU'io Telegraph— Copyright. (Received Oct. 18. 8.56 n.m.) LONDON, Oi:t. 17. Five hundred liners, under several e</ninuuul:mls, are iidvanchic; south by v/ay «>f the (jrciitbcrg Valley, looting and recnming. .Sonic have readied Sald-3.ua Bay, nnd others ]Jonciiel(l Soutli, a township some miles inland from the buy. The I?vi\i.-h are pressing them hard. The sentences of hanging passed on Field-Cornel. J. S. Kruger fur rebellion, and Lieutenant Breda,' for train-wrecking at Bclhulie. and murdering a. native, have been confirmed. The .sentences on threeothers belonging io Letter's commando Jw.vo been commuted to imprisonment for life. Couunundaaus De La Rev and Kemp are •vow northwards of t-he Muguliesburg Hills. Thercn, adjutant to Commandant Roo.«. Lieutenant Obirvolsen and Field-Cornet Vauderinerwe and eighty men have been captured in the Orange River Colony. T-lio Frontier Light Horse captured eighteen Boers at Kotberg, in Capo Colony. Commandant Fouche is vitlidKoviug northwards after flogging and looting fuiincrs and shooting three natives.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7231, 18 October 1901, Page 3
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