New Zealanders in action
A SEVERE REVERSE. TWO OFFICERS AND EIGHTEEN MEN KILLED. FIVE OFFICERS AND THIRTYTHREE MEN JWOUNDED. —o—
A private cable message from Sydney informs us that during heavy fighting between a company of the New Zealand Seventh Contingent and General Botha’s commando, . the New Zealanders, in endeavouring to check Botha’s advance, met with a serious reverse. Upon retiring it was found that two officers and eighteen men were killed, and five officers and thirty three men-wounded.
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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 57, 28 February 1902, Page 3
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79New Zealanders in action Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 57, 28 February 1902, Page 3
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