OTHER WAR NOTES.
jf ■ • . LONDON, December 30. p The British Have reoccupied FiekSfourg. :■ ■■ •: :.;■/. y; ;;: "■;■ ;■ ■ ; Of the missing troops at Nooitegacht 17 <of the Black Watch wera killed.
Lieut.-Colonel Spragge, who commanded the battalion of Irish Yeomanry which surrendered at Lindley, and Lieut. Woodhouse, have resigned their commissions as the outcome of the reopening of the matter., General French is at Ventersdorp.
A big commando^ with 160 waggons, is in the Vrybei'g- district trekking westward. They crossed the railway at Brussels siding, south of Vryberg. Another force of 270 Boers crossed the line < at. Saltpans'.;,'..'.: • :
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Auckland Star, Issue 311, 31 December 1900, Page 5
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94OTHER WAR NOTES. Auckland Star, Issue 311, 31 December 1900, Page 5
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