OFFICIAL NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18430, 14 March 1922, Page 5

OFFICIAL NEWS.

(Reuter.) Received March 14, 1.30 a.m. CAPETOWN, March 13. An official communique states: In the central area the operations were entirely satisfactory. Two squadrons of police besieged Brixton and Auckland Park, relieved oui- forces, and pushed well forward to high ground at Westcliff with slight casualties. An aeroplane operating against the rebels’ forces came to land, A second airman in attempting to rescue the stranded pilot damaged the under-carriage of his ’plane. A third machine then landed and took off successfully with two of the stranded aviators. Of the remaining three one managed to reach the house of friends and the other two took refuge in a plantation where he was attacked by a mounted revolutionary. One aviator was wounded, but the revolutionary was killed. The aviators escaped and reached a hospital in the Eastern area. Vandeventers’ forces heavily engaged the revolutionaries who retired into Benoni. Our forces now occupy the position held by the rebels in the western area. Large numbers of our forces reached Krugersdorp late in the afternoon and are now pushing eastward. Operations continued all day long in the vicinity of the Pretoria-Germiestou railway line. The revolutionaries were heavily bombed but persisted in attempting to damage the line, having already done so twice. On both occasions the line was repaired. Forces under Colonel Breytenbach have occupied Rietfontein.