Latest Operations on the Modder.
The Basutos Jubilant
(Received Wakapaaka March 7, 9.50 a.m, This Office 10.34 a. m, London, March 6 General Gateacre entered Stormberg after it was evacuated by the Boers. A reconnaisaace by the N.P.W. Lan? cera and the Inniskillings, disclosed the Boers four miles from Osfonteiu, occu« pying the kopjes on both sides of the Modder. The position has a length of ten ir^iles and is strongly entrenched, but pan be easily turned. The Basutos are wildly jubilant at the British victories. [We publish this cable as it comes to us through the Press Association, but no one at all acquainted with the history of the British soldier, either in this campaign or any other, would think he required stiffening. We are unable to understand why the Prees Association, usually «o careful, should send a cable, which, upon the face of it is so unfair to the British army.] (Received Wakapuaka March 7, 9.30 am. This Office 10.58 a.m) "Oafeto^N, March 6 The Waiwera's contingent of New ■Sealandwi are leaving for the front.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 5057, 7 March 1900, Page 2
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