TRANSVAAL WAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 1500, 6 December 1899, Page 3

TRANSVAAL WAR

THEY ARE SUPPLIED WITH LEE ENFIELDS. THE SEVERAL BRITISH C.OMMANDS--50,000 TROOPS IN ;ALL ENGAGED, LADYSMITH REPORTS ALL WELL -CAPTURE OF A BOER LAAGER.- *• TU«__A RAILWAY BRIDGE BLOWN UP. THE RETURNED LANCERS. TO BE DISMISSED UNLESS THEY GIVE SATISFACTORY EXPLANATION. Press Association— Telegraph— Copyright. CAPETOWN, December ' 4. ' - Sir A. - Milner visited the Australian, troops at Maitland on the 28th ult„ and wai received with great enthusiasm. The men have been supplied with Lee-Enfields. The equipment which they brought from Australia being largely in excess of regulations, aad much has been stored. • General Buller commands twenty-three thousand men, General Gatacre s__thousand, and : Genera?. FrencK three thousand. The maintenance of communication between De Aar and Graspa'n absorbs eight thousand men. - ' , • DURBAN, December 4. General Hildyard located 5000 Boers etrongly posted to th.c. north of Tugela, with many guns. A tremendous explosion, accompanied; by a huge column of smoke, was heard during a subsequent ' reconnaissance that was It is believed the explosion indicates the destruction of the Railway Bridge, though ihe Road.Rridge is intact. .. --• Ladysmith reported all well on the 24th. CAPETOWN, December 4. The Bechuanaland peace, on the 28th ult., captured a laager to the west of Kimb&rlcv* Mr Bauer has warned 7000 at Dordrecht that .though Great Britain. was generous, sho wonld exact terrible punishment for disloya'ty. It was hopeless for the farmers to resist overwhelming forces. : » ■