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Show Boer War Not Knded. According to a dispatch from Capetown Cape-town a force of Boers attacked and surrounded a party of Cape police, with a convoy, near Hoopstad, Orange River Colony, last Saturday, and a short fight ensued. 1 he police were forced to abandon two Maxims. Ultimately reinforced by the Yeomanry, they- succeeded in getting away with the convoy, but they lost seven killed, eleven wounded and fifteen captured. The colonials were outnumbered ten to one and the engagement lasted for two hours. The Boers have 15,000 men in ths field, nearly half of whom are in Orange River Colony. These are divided di-vided into commandoes of some three hundred each, but are capable of combination com-bination for large operations. |