THE ENEMY IN NATAL.
FIGHTING AT POMEROY.
AX INDECISIVE ACTIOX,
LONDON, March 11
Bbthune's Mounted Umvoti Rifles and Natal Police, with three Maxims, heavily engaged the enemy at Pomeroy on the 9th.
[Pomeroy is on the main road north through Natal to Dundee, and is about 35 miles west oC Ladysmith.J
'.The enemy possessed too many big" guns. Bethune's troops were unable to dislodge them without artillery, and retired south of the Tugela. One Britisher was wounded. The Boer loss was considerable.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 13 March 1900, Page 5
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