BOTHA'S PREDICAMENT.
THREATENED BY KAFFIRS
HIS RETREAT JEOPARDISED.
BULLER'S CASUALTIES.
IRUGER FEELS INJURED.
PROTESTING TO THE POWERS
NOBLE STAND BY LADYBRAND GARRISON
[N.Z. Pkess Association.—Copyright.]
(Received 9.5 a.m.)
LONDON, September G
The natives of the Lydenburg iaistrict threaten to prevent. Commandant Botha crossing the Streelpoort River, which runs a few miles ,west of the town of Lydenburg. Already they are looting the Boer cattle. Since August 25 General Buller's casualties have totalled 270. [This , includes the fighting at Dalmamttha, of which Bullers force bore the brunt.] The Boers have lost many more. ; LOjS tDO^ t, September 5. Kruger has protested to Lord Salisbury and the Powers against the annexation of the Transvaal. A severe skirmish between the ( •Boers and the Ivaffrarian Kiflesjoc- ; curred at Kwaggasfont on Friday, i Five of the Kifles were killed and j 19 wounded.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 213, 7 September 1900, Page 5
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