LATEST.
REPORTED LACK OP BOOTS AT PRETORIA.
MARAUDING BOERS PUNISHED.
CABLE FROM THE AGENT-GENERAL.
THE RECENT FIGnT AT NITRAL PASS. - ' \VHOLESALir~SLAUGHTIiR. i | J | j j
Received July: 15, 6.35 p.m. • . ' LONDON, July 13.. Three companies of the Lincoln? occupied Nitral Pass, and two encamped on the plains, with the guns, "as an escort. On the Scots Groys'. advance, to the. main body, nearly, eveiy gunner, and trooper was killed or wounded. ■• ' , • A.sergeant and seven volunteers gallantly saved the Maxims. • ••"' - "7 ~ ' The Jjincolns were suirtfunded, but unswervingly fired steadily and economically. An officer and fifteen men charged? and fourteen were killed or wounded. • ." I ' At nightfall the ammunition was ex-' hausted, and the force fixed baypners.-nSd awaited the attack. ' y ■. A' report states that the troops at' Pre-' Jtoria are barefooted.,!,The Wai'.;Office is 'sdeptiwtl, and asserts that 800,000 pairs of hi/ota were despatched for the use^of-. thetroopa. ; "-'■ - "'. - -. '
TWO; N.S.W. BUSHMEN' WOUNDED. THE LATE-DISASTER AT NIKOLO NEK. SUPERB. CHARGE -BY '^AUSTRALIAN BUSHMEN. • -v = THE-RAVAGES OF FEVER. ' DEATH OP THREE MORE NEW r , •,„«,;., ZEALANDERS. ~~ • . JElec'eived July 15; 7.28 p.m. LONDON, July 13. The chief Seccoconi severely defeated the Boers A maraudilig his •■territory. Troopers Walsh'and Hoy, New South .Wales Bushmen, were wounded at, Rustenf burg. "V Received July 16, 1 a.m. LONDON, July 14. The Daily Mail states that many British struggled back. Armed natives assisted the Boers. • BofchaiS r attack was a desperato effort to relieve De Wet, whoi.was wedged in a small area which adjoined the Drakensburgs and -Basutoland. - * Two thousand I roops, with four, guns, under De'Larey, surprised Nikolo Nek. The Scots Grey/ gunners lost 10 trying to hold the hill, while the Lincplns lost 5 officers out of 10, including Colonel Roberts (wounded and captured). . The total captured is unknown, since stragglers are still returning. The Boers, creeping through a mealie field, surprised the 38th Batteiy marching to Bethlehem, and killed 2 officers, wounding 18. - They "captured one gun, but a party of Australian Bushmen, by a superb charge, recaptured the gun and drove the Boers off with severe loss. Received July 16, 1 a.m. LONuON, July IS. K. Gonie, 0. E. Wiggins, and Towsie (New Zealanders) died of enteric fever at Germiston.
A HEAVY DEATH RATE. (By Telegraph.) WELLINGTON, July 15. The Premier has received the following cablegram from the Agent-General, dated London, 13th, 7 p.m.: — For the relief of pressure on De Wet's force, the Boers attacked Lord Robert*' detachments at four points—to the southwest, west, north, and south-east of Pretoria. The S'outh-west and south-east: attacks were repulsed, while the one to the west was successfut,;with rather serious disaster. The deaths fronii siuknens for five weeks in South Africa have been utjuuli tU« average <& 75 yes week/ .^
LATEST. REPORTED LACK OP BOOTS AT PRETORIA. MARAUDING BOERS PUNISHED. CABLE FROM THE AGENT-GENERAL.
Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 16 July 1900, Page 3
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