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DEFEAT OF DE WET. Colonel M. 0. Little fought Commandant De Wet's commando near Linley. The Boers were repulsed and broken into two sections. BEEAKING HIS OATH. Capt. Wolmarans, who was arrested at Hatherly, about 12 miles from Pretoria, confessed serving with a commando after taking the oath of neutrality. £12,000 in gold was found in his house. Colonel Little's action was with De Wet's fifteen hundred Boers who had traversed the British cordon. The British casualties were slight. VICTOEIA CEOSS HEEOES. Victoria Crosses have been awarded to Captain F. M. Meiklejohn and Sergeant-Major Eobertson, of the Gordon Highlanders, for gallantry at Elandslaagte, and to Lieutenant John Norwood, sth Dragoon Guards, for rescuing a sapper under fire at Ladysmith.
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Manawatu Herald, 24 July 1900, Page 2
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