THE SIEGE OF RUSTENBURG.
TOWN NOT YET RELIEVED
HICKMAN UNSUCCESSFUL
(Eeeeived 9 a.m.)
LONDON, July 30. .L. Commandant De la Key, who is at the head of al.arge force, is still besieging jVlfijor - General Baden- " Powell in Kustenburg, notwithstanding the statement of a couple of days" back that General Lord Metlmen had relieved the town and dispersed the besiegers. General Hickman, who was. despatched from Pretoria, 60 miles east of Kustenburg, with a relief column, reconnoitred on the southward side, but finding De la Key's position too strong for him to assail* with the force at his disposal, returned. , -
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 180, 31 July 1900, Page 5
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