POSITION IN THE FREE STATE.
THE KOODOOSRAND
SHAMBLES
ROBERTS ADVANCING
(Received 5.50 a.m.)
LONDON, March 4
It is now stated that the Free Staters in General Cronje's laager, at Koodoos, and, numbering 1500, nearly mutinied, desiring him to surrender.
One of the companies which attacked Cronje's laager was composed entirely of French Canadians. .....•■■ LONDON, March 3. Lord Roberts has reached Osfentein, six miles east of Paardenberg.
Five thousand Boers have assembled four miles further east.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 54, 5 March 1900, Page 5
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