SUCCESS OF BRITISH TACTICS,

AN ENGAGEMENT AT KLIPRATT

JUNCTION

London, February 12,

Lord Kitchener reports that the British movements in the east have thoroughly upset the Boers’ calculations and created a panic. Kruger is still promising General Botha European interference. A disloyalist at Kimberley was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment and fined £3OO for uttering insults against the late Queen and disfiguring her portrait. Colonel Cunningham is watching De La Rey’s 2,000 men near Krugersdorp, Major Breterod, commanding Steyns burg, called in all the males, farmers and others, from 16 to 40 years of age, lest the enemy commandeer them if they disobey the order to join the commandos. Com mandeered men if found in the ranks of the enemy are guilty of high treason. A sharp fight took place at KHpratt Junction. Kruitzinger's commando killed six of the South African Light Horse and Seventh Dragoons, wounded eight, and captured fifteen.
LATER PARTICULARS,

RECORD MARCH

KRUGER ASKED TO MOVE ON

London, February 13,

Colonel De Lisle, with the Australians, beat the record in marching to WilMston, in Western Cape Colony, covering 72 miles in 48 hours. The route was through a desolate and waterless country. The Boers have gone to Vanwyksvaler in search of water and forage.
