BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
[Reuter’s Aqencv.j The Transvaal Disaster. Capetown, March. 2. Further telegrams to hand from Natal fully confirm the previous announcement of a disaster to the British troops in the Transvaal. The fighMng at Spitskoff (not Opitskok), as stated in the first telegram, was of a desperate and most sanguinary character, and lasted fully seven hours. The British resisted the attack of the Boers until their ammunition was exhausted, and the small force which was left who then compelled to retreat. The enemy followed in pursuit for some distance but were checked by gun.: from the camp at Mount Pleasant, where the stragglers
from the defeated force are now arriving safely.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2480, 2 March 1881, Page 2
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112BRITISH AND FOREIGN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2480, 2 March 1881, Page 2
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