BRITISH CAMP ATTACKED BY DE WET.

Wanganui Chronicle, 28 December 1901, Page 3

BRITISH CAMP ATTACKED BY DE WET.

CASUALTIES: SUPPOSES TO BE

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DE WET PURSUED ONCE MORE

Received December 27, 10.32 p.m.. LONDON, December -■. I Rundle reports that De Wet, with a conIderable .force, successfully rusned Colonel [irman's camp at Tweefontein during the ight of the 24th. It is feared the casualles are heavy. .-- --i Finnan's column consisted of the 34t'h', fcth," 36th, and 53rd Companies oi Yeolanry, one gun 'of the 79th B.itteiy, the ■eld Artillery, anu pompoms engaged larding 'the block-house on the line iiom Lrrismith to Betilehem. ■The Ist and 2nd In«perial Light Horse ■; jjursuing the enemy. *, * ■UK 7th N.Z. CONTINGENT ALL 1" " WELL Per Press Association. I WELLINGTON, December 27. ■Colonel Porter,' Seventh Contingent, ■res to the Premier from Dundee and Inr Ko as follows: —"Lads in the field wish Iv to publicly convey their Christmas Meetings- to all' friends and relatives in ■w Zealand. Regiment cheerful-and I THE EIGHTH CONTINGENT. H TIMARU, December 27. Hhe twelve men allotted Timdru for the Hhth Contingent were selected to-day, H comprise 10 returned troopers—^four ■nbers of the Second," three of tlie Third one each of the South African Hht Horse, Kitchener's Horse, and Bra'Horse, and two members of the ■anted Bines. She six men for Fairlie include one reHied sergeant, H. Bailey,-of Kitchener's (son of Lieuttnant-'Colonel Bailey), Mounted Rifles, and two civilians^