BRITISH ADVANCE in GAPE COLONY.
FORWARD.
WILL ATTACK COLES-ERG'-AND ALIWAL NORTH.
POSITION AT LADYSMITH SATISFACTORY.
NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT HAS ARRIVED.
[N.Z. Peess Association.—Copyright.]
¥'~'~ ■ CAPETOWN, November 22.. I'■ Major-General Sir William Gat acre is advancing with the object of recapturing Colesberg- and Aliwal North. [The force which General Gatacre commands. was concentrated at Queenstown, 125 miles south of Aliwal North, which in a- direct line is 100 miles east of Colesberg. Sir William Gatacre is one of the three divisional generals in the present campaign. Heis one of the youngest of majorgenerals, and owes his somewhat rapid advance ment to the Inst Soudan campaign, where he led first a brigade, then a division, of British troops with unflagging energy and zeal. The most marked trait in Gatacre is a restless, untiring activity; he spares no one, himself least of all;, and it is said that he sometimes Wore out his men on the Nile by his incessant marchings and rehearsals. But he has shown since then a very considerable gift for troop-leading, and he will certainly not be the least useful of Buller's assistants.]
THIRD DIVISION UNDER GATACRE MOVES
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 278, 23 November 1899, Page 9
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