The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-30
Citizens and Military Unable to Secure
Provisions ON Account of In
cessant BOer Raids.
CONVOY CAPTURED AT GETUK
TWENTY-FIVE WAGONLOADs OF
SUPPLIES TAKEN BY BOERs.
Return of Gen. COlville TO England
Followed by n Demand for n
Court-MartiaI Investigation.

LONDON, Dec 29.-London is anxiously
awaiting news from Lord Kitchener in re-
gard to General De Wet. When last heard
from De Wet seemed TO be in a trap and
was attempting to break through the Brit
ish lines. Since then no official report has
come from the British commander as to
De Wet. News from other fields of opera
ton is not encouraging. A dispatch from
Craddock, Cape Colony dated Friday,
says: Kimberley is almost isolated by
Boer raiders. No mails have reached there
from Dec. 10 to Dec. %. Provisions are at
famine prices. The military took charge of
all the foodstuffs Dec. y. The Leinster
Regiment. commanded by Major Barry.
had a slxirmish lasting four hours with the
Beers at Dreifontein, Dec q, suffering
slight losses. The Beers at Getuk cap
tured a convoy of twenty-five wagons on
Christmas evening""
General Kitchener telegraphing from
Pretoria, under date of Dec. IS, sends a
summary of the number of attacks made
by the Beers at various points. The only
important incident was an attack on bag
gage column near Greylingstadt. A COM
pany with a pompon made sortie from
Greylingstadt and drove off the Beers.
Captains Radcliffe and Harvest were
wounded. Eight men were killed, twenty
seven were wounded and twenty were re-
ported missing.
A special from Naauwpoort dated Dec 2S
reports that Colonel De Isle defeated
Hertzog, eighteen miles west of De Aar.
capturing number of wagons and releas-
ing the prisoners captured at Philippstown.
n fx,rf f~,r-
Kritzenger toward venerstadt. Both COM
mandos are in a desperate plight and will
probably never recross the Orange river.
A Standerton dispatch, dated Dec. Is.
says 1t is estimated that 1000 Beers were
engaged in the operations i'm North Natal.
hoping to break the British line of COM
munication. This plan failed and the Beers
were driven off in each case with more or
less loss, their casualties in the last day or
two numbering fifty, while the British
casualties were slight.
According to a johannesburg dispatch of
Fridays date General French occupied
Venterdorp that day without opposition.
This place being a great telegraphic center.
has been much used by the Beers for the
dissemination of information. The posses
sion of Ventersdorp. Richtenberg and
Zeerust gives the British strong hold
upon this part of the country.
From Carnarvon under Fridays date,
COintS d ulSpdtcH Saying the oOeTS
occupied Vosburg Dec. q in force and were
reported to be moving on Carnarvon, where
martial law has been proclaimed. The
loyal field comets and farmers have as
sured the authorities that they will remain
loyal and Will suppress disloyal talk.
1t is reliably reported, according to a
dispatch from Newcastle, Dec. 49, that
Louis Botha has informed Commandant
Spruight that Kruger has sent word that
the burghers must lay down their arms
or continue fighting OH their own account.
as no support from Europe can be ex-
pected.
The British have reoccupfed Ficksburg,
which for some time he'd been in the hands
of the Beers.
In view of the prolongation of the war,
the London Daily Telegraph has again dis
patched Mr.. Bennett Burleigh, it's famous
war correspondent, to South Africa.