IN THE FIELD.
BOTHA CONCENTRATING
A FORCE OF 1,200
j SEVERAL MINOR CAPTURES
REPORTED
(By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.)
(Received 9.2 a.m.)
LONDON, January 9,
The extension of the block-house-is giving General Bruce Hamilton a firmer grip on the Eastern Transvaal.
Commandant Botha is concentrating in the vicinity of Mongoma, in the Eastern Transvaal.
Grob.laar is at Inhlazatye. Dannhauser is at Babanango. The combined forces are estimated at twelve hundred and fifty, with three guns.
LONDON, January 9. General Elliott, on the sth instant, •aptured nine Boers. A destroyed Krupp gun has been fosnd at Kroonstad t.
Lova's scouts surprised a portion of Myburg's commando, at Kingstown, killing one. and capturingeight, including Commandant 'Neering.
Botha has reinforced De Wet at Bethlehem.
General Colville's Scouts captured 18 Boers on the Swaziland border.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8, 10 January 1902, Page 5
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