OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH.
RAID ON A BOER TOWNSHIP. (Received December 11, 8.58 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 10th December. A brilliant piece of raiding work has been done by a detachment of eighty-five members of the Bechuanaland Mounted Police, under Captain G. L. Holdsworth, of the Seventh Hussars, one of the special service officers sent out early in the year to organise the British frontier forces. ■ Starting from Mochudi, a Bechuanaland station on the trunk railway, situated 124
miles north of Mafeking, on Notuani River, one of the branches into which the Limpopo divides, the Iroop rode across country to Scguain, a Transvaal township on the Marico, another of the Limpopo afuupnt.s. There they surprised the Boer laager, wounding 28 of its defenders, without harm lo themselves, and returned to Mochudi, having ridden one hundred miles in thirteen hours.
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Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 140, 11 December 1899, Page 5
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OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH.
Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 140, 11 December 1899, Page 5
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