Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1900 — GENERAL KNOX, WHO IS PRESSING DE WET HARD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GENERAL KNOX, WHO IS PRESSING DE WET HARD.

Gen. Charles E, Knox, who is giving Gen. De Wet a lively chase in the southern portion of Orange River Colony, has been in South Africa about a year, and has seen a great deal of fighting. He commanded a brigade of Lord Roberts’ army until the battle of Paardeburg, in which he was severely wounded in the chest. Gen. Knox was born fifty-four years ago and served with Sir Charles Warren in the Beehuanalnnd campaign of 1884. His substantive rank in the British army is that of colonel.