THE BOER WAR.
Natal Volunteers required at the Front.
Boers Loot Fricksburg
(pee press association.)
[by ELECTRIC TELEGBAPH. —COPYRIGHT.] London, January 0. The Natal Volunteers have been warned that their services may possibly he again required in the field. A British force is pursuing De Wet. The latter divided his force into three columns, which are marching via Hammonia, Commando Nek and Wolmaran s Hoek. , , . The Boors looted the town of kicks burg. The residents fled to Basutoland upon the approach of the enemy to the Western frontier. The disloyalists in Bechuanaland are again joining the Boer Commandos. Five hundred mounted infantry sailed from. Malta for active service in South Africa. Twenty-eight Boer prisonei'k, some cattle, and a number of waggons were captured by the British at ll.ammonia. At Capetown a city guard is being formed releasing 4,000 regular troops.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 January 1901, Page 4
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140THE BOER WAR. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 January 1901, Page 4
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