BRITISH SUCCESS AT SEKWANI.
| ..TRANSVAAL BORDER' y TOWN ATTACKED.. T , (Received 9.20 a.m.) f CAPETOWN, December 10, ' Capt. G-. L. Holdsworth of the 7th Hussars, with 85 mounted police, brilliantly surprised the Boer iaager at Sekwani,' n Transvaal township on the Marico River, on the .Befliuanala,nd South. African Republic ,bounfiary. . ■..',■* ,;The casualties of the enemy were 2S "wounded., --•■'■ The attacking force returned safely ■to Machudi, in Bechunaland, on the Sapetown-Buluwayo line-of rail, havingl ridden 100 miles in 13 hours.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 293, 11 December 1899, Page 5
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