IN THE FREE STATE.
BOEBS ENTRENCHING AT KBOONBTAD.
(Recdived 24, 9.10 a.m.)
London, March 22, The Boers are massing and entrenching at Kroonstad.
General French, at Thabanchu (about 50 miles east of Bloemfontein) has received a heliograph message that 4000 Colesberg Boers are trekking towards Ladybrand. The Free Staters are surrendering many inferior weapons, and an impression prevails that they are concealing their Mausers. The Cape rebels are disarming alowly, and it is believed they are hiding rifles, BOERS ENTRENOHED AT FAURESMITH. Received 25, 6 p.m. London, March 24, Five hundred Boers are entrenched near Fauresmith. THE AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT. (Received 25, 6 p.m.) London, March 24. The Australian Regiment at Norval's Pont is starting on a sixteen days' march via Bloemfontein. STEYN DEPOSED. A GOVERNMENT APPOINTED. (Received 26, 1.35 a.m) f London, March 25. It is affirmed that a committee of burghers at Kroonstad has assumed the Government and deposed President Steyn.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 76, 26 March 1900, Page 2
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152IN THE FREE STATE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 76, 26 March 1900, Page 2
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