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Wanganui Chronicle, 5 March 1901, Page 3

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THORNEYCROFT IN EVIDENCE

PLUCKY CAPTURE BY VICTORIANS.

THE CAPE RAIDERS AT THE

ORANGE RIVER.

Received March 5, 0.35 a.m.

LONDON, March 4.

Thornsycroft, after a running fight lasting two days, galloped throutrh and dispersed eight hundred of Hertzog's commando. He captured a quantity of jewellery and other loot. Captain J.j Dallimove, -with fifteen of the Victorian Imperial Bushmen, surrounded thirty Boers on Friday and captured them' all.

Three. Boers murdered a native who was tke p'rpcipal witness against twenty prisoners indicted for treason at Waterkloof.

Major-Gjeneral Hickman on tlie 26th inflicted losses on De Wet in the vicinity of gaud Drift. Two Boers were drowned there in attempting to cross the river, and the attempt was abandoned.

Plumer pursued- De Wet eastwards. His troopa were hurried via Hanover Road to ColesTwrg to try and intercept De Wet's flight. Desultory skirmishing took place at various points in the directipn of Hamelfontein Haig.

Betbuen arrived there on tli& 28th, but the invaders had already gone.

Steyn and De" Wet, with 1500 men, sworn the river at Liliiefonfein, near the Colesburg Bridge, on the 28th. The current carried many down a considerable distance. ■ Tha enemy, nevertheless, removed fiv« carts and waggons, and two ambulances, but abandoned a number of horses, carts, maps of Cape Colony, and clothes. M*ny Boers were seen on the other side of the river riding off in a semi-nude condition. Nine of Nesbitt's Horse, firing from cover, wounded some of the swimtners.