Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — BOERS INVADE CAPE COLONY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOERS INVADE CAPE COLONY.

A Force of 703 Burghers Crosses Near Allwal North. A dispatch from Cape Town says 700 Boers have crossed from Orange River .Colony into Cope Colony, near Aliwal North, and have reached Kuap’dal. The object for which the Boers have been Striving for weeks is thus accomplished, and it is feared ffirft tlie efrthers or dis~ affection which have been smoldering in Cape Colony will be fanned into open hostility and a general rising throughout the colony is not impossible. The inability of the British army to trap De YY'et nud the disaster at tlie Magaliesberg. together with the capture of a part of Brabant’s horse, have thrown the British war office into a condition bordering sti panic. The entrance of the Boers into Cape Colony comes as the crowning blow of ail. The dispatch gives no details, but it is possible that De YY'el himself may be in command. A dispatch from Maseru, Baustoland, dated Sunday, says Gen. De YY’et attacked Lapberg and YY’arringliam’s store. He made three determined assaults on the British positions and- pled the third at-

tack in person. YY’itii a few of his men he charged through while the rest of his force followed. Another dispatch says a commando which has been endeavoring to capture Thalia N'Cha Nek has been repulsed. Commandant Haasbvoek, with a commando and two guns, fried to force Springkaut's Nek, near Thai*a N’Chu, but was repulsed, with a loss of forty men. As an offset to the repeated British reverses is an unconfirmed rumor of a severe battle resulting in a victory for the English. According to the story ftie fighting began at daybreak Sunday aud lasted for several hours. The Boers, who numbered from 1,500 to 2,000 men, were surrounded at the Orange river and totally defeated, with heavy losses in killed and wounded.

GEN. CHRISTIAN DE WET.