Several Strong And Mobile Boer Commandos With Guns Moved
About In It, And An Energetic Though Not Very Deadly Warfare Raged
Between Lemmer, Snyman, And De La Rey On The One Side, And The
Troops Of Methuen, Douglas, Broadwood, And Lord Errol Upon The
Other.
Methuen moved about incessantly through the broken country,
winning small skirmishes and suffering the indignity of continual
sniping.
From time to time he captured stores, wagons, and small
bodies of prisoners. Early in October he and Douglas had successes.
On the 15th Broadwood was engaged. On the 20th there was a convoy
action. On the 25th Methuen had a success and twenty-eight
prisoners. On November 9th he surprised Snyman and took thirty
prisoners. On the 10th he got a pom-pom. Early in this month
Douglas separated from Methuen, and marched south from Zeerust
through Ventersdorp to Klerksdorp, passing over a country which had
been hardly touched before, and arriving at his goal with much
cattle and some prisoners. Towards the end of the month a
considerable stock of provisions were conveyed to Zeerust, and a
garrison left to hold that town so as to release Methuen's column
for service elsewhere.
Hart's sphere of action was originally round Potchefstroom. On
September 9th he made a fine forced march to surprise this town,
which had been left some time before with an entirely inadequate
garrison to fall into the hands of the enemy. His infantry covered
thirty-six and his cavalry fifty-four miles in fifteen hours.
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