THE LATEST.
THE FREDERECKSTAD ENGAGEMENT. FUGITIVES MOWN DOWN BY * SHRAPNEL. DULLER RESUMES COMMAND AT ALDERSHOT. COLONIALS’ RECEPTION IN ENGLAND. GREAT PREPARATIONS BEING MADE. (Received November 12, 8.05 a.m.) London, November 11. Details of General Barton’s recent defeat of Do Wet at Fredereckstad show that 2000 Boers were engaged. After heavy lighting, many streamed from their cover to the northwards. Shrapnels burst freely overhead, |f mowing down the fugitives from three sides. Few escaped the inlerno.
General Buller has resumed command at Aldershot. Great Preparations are being made to entertain the Co)ouial troops in England. A visit is being arranged to the chief manufacturing centres and the arsenals. The reviews them at Windsor, ar /'fecial service will be held at St. Sirs.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 802, 12 November 1900, Page 2
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