IN THE ORANGE RIVER COLONY.
A FIERCE FIGHT. BOERS ATTACK A SHALL BRITISH FORCE. TIMELY ASSISTANCE. (Received 19,1.38 a.m.) London, June 18. Six hundred Boers attacked 250 ol the North Royal Lancashires at Zand River station, where Major J. E Capper's Railway Pioneers force were repairing a bridge. Lcrd Kitchener forewarned Major Oapper, and the latter entrenched hie force. The Boers, at dawn, opened with a rifle fire, a pom-pom, and twelvepounders. A furious fight raged till the Yeomanry arrived in the afternoon. The Boers, decamping, left seven dead and nine were captured.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 104, 19 June 1900, Page 3
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93IN THE ORANGE RIVER COLONY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 104, 19 June 1900, Page 3
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