THE FIGHTING AROUND RENSBURG.
1 OUR FOKCES COME UNSCATHED ) THROUUH A TEIIItIJ3.uK KIKE. (Ilcccivctl 20, 9.10 a.m.) Cai'Ktuwn, February 19, j Detachments of tlia Inni-skilling , Dragoons, with four guns, tho lloyui 3 Dragoon?, the 12th Lancers, and two lompacies of the New South Wales 3 Mounted Infantry, under Cup'ain J. ; G. Legge aud Lieut. W. Holmes, reconnoitred Knilfoutein, went ward . from llensburg, on Saturday, and wei t- . exposed to a t- vitiro ftoia two , Vickers-M ixim i ~ur, but escapid I scatheless, i London, February 19. i The Daily Mail correspondent, who
was present during tho fight at Reit River between a Boer commando from Rensburg and the British detachment escorting two hundred waggons, states that tho waggons were saved by the arrival of British reinforcements.
, Tho following official correction is made:—Private McCane, of the Victorian Contingent, who was reported , killed at Rensburg, was wounded and captured,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 42, 21 February 1900, Page 2
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147THE FIGHTING AROUND RENSBURG. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 42, 21 February 1900, Page 2
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