THE WAR.
BOER FORCER ’DIVIDED. THEIR RETREAT GUT OFF. - . The Generals acting lltider General Bullet have echeloned, thus compelling the Boers t > subdivide their forces. Get Orhl Hildyard is Beeking to halve the enemy. _ *'*''*, ' The prevention of their retreat south ward ß through,.the .passes in" the Drakensberg mountains is already assured. General Bu ler is endeavouring to drive the Boor-i as to enable General White to assail,-th^ir..-left flank from Ladysmith. '■.■■■ General Bnllor has received further feihfo* cements.”- ■ * - * • The of the Ladysmith relief column, sheltered by boulders, are on a prominent i'idg e , enl canjfi e across the thousand yards flat to the Boers’ main stronghold. The artillery haj^howitzers p’aying On the-enemy’s trenches along several fniles of kopjes.-- • * ' General Bullet’s brigades are slowly and surely converging on the Boer centre. General, cautiously and steadily envelop!rig’the enemy’s right flank, and pushing north, -ast. The British •• casualties in Sunday’s fighting were undergone hundred.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222041, 25 January 1900, Page 2
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150THE WAR. Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222041, 25 January 1900, Page 2
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