COLENSO.
Later details have been received here of the evacuation of Colenso.
It appears that the British garrison fearing that they would be surrounded by a command > of Free State burgher?, numbering 5000. were withdrawn, and retired with all their stores to Estcourc, a town twenty miles to the aouchwa^d, ou the Durban-Pietermaritzburg railway. The Boer forces, on taking possession of Coleneo, looted the town
The railway bridge over the Tngela river at the captured township ia still intact.
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Manawatu Herald, 9 November 1899, Page 2
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79COLENSO. Manawatu Herald, 9 November 1899, Page 2
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