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Manawatu Herald, 10 February 1900, Page 3

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The Times states that the Boers occupied three miles of kopjes ras-t---wards from Spionkop, with an easier;) extremity curve southward towards Zwartz Kop. Strong batteries of British naval, field and mountain artillery were massed at Zwarfcz Kop. Major-General P. B. Lane operated with the British left and Lieut.-General Lyttelton on the right. The lattler captured the southernmost kopje on the northern bank. The Boers on Doornkloof Hill shelled the British column and heavily arrested its advance, maintaining a long range shell lire throughout Monday. On Tuesday it was difficult to locate the Boer forces owing to their using smokeless powder. The Boers having recaptured the northern end of the kopje which Lieut.General Lyttelton carried on Monday, the position was recarried by the British infantry at the point of the bayonet. . „ During Colonel Wynne's attack his force was heavily shelled by the Boers. The British casualties are estimated at 250. ' , In Monday's fighting, the first battalion of the Durban Light Infantry lost 80 men, the first battalion of the Rifle Brigade, 70, other regiments 60. General Buller used 72 guns in the The' work of tbe British artillery is described as superb, the guns raking the Boer trenches. The Durban Light Infantry carried Vaal Krantz at the point of the bayonet. It is the key of the lower ridges. The Rifle Brigade carried Krantz Kloof. BULLER'S FORCE 34,000. General Buller's field force numbers 34,000 with over 160 gi!t?v.. BOERS PRL*.— .~ t\Ji< «R-

TREAT. Heliogratns from L » .y^r-iiih report that there are signs that the Boers art preparing for a general retreat towards Van Reenan's Pass, on the rail way line to Harrismith in the Orange Free State, in the event of reverses. GENERAL GATACRE. News has been received that th<; Boers have attacked Major General Gatacre at Penbock, near, the Bird* river siding, continued throughou. yesterday. No details are to hand. The Boers feinted an attack on Pen bock, the real object being Molteno ; but they retreated when Lieut.General Gatacre was reinforced. %LORD ROBERTS. Lorglwoberts is concentrating thirty thous*»B troops at the front with a view/if striking a hard blow at the centidf and pressing the enemy to extremities, and preventing the arrival of reinforcements at weak points, BOERS SHORT OF SHELLS. Advices reached the Hou.e of Commons that the Boers are short of shells for their big guns. They are making desperate efforts lo obtain fresh supplies in Europe.

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