SECOND EDITION.
. O BOER ENTRENCHMENTS IN NATAL. A FORMIDABLE LINE. [I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received January 3, 1.30 a.m.) DURBAN, 2nd Januar . The reports of British scouts who * ye reconnoitred the region to the west *d of Colenso shew that the Boers oc . ivy strong positions from tho Upper T .;eli> to Acton Homes. It has also been ascertained tha*. tfiey have formed a new camp near S [ ringfield. The entrenchments of the euc " between the present British cam..-, and Ladysmith have a front extend rg for sixteen miles from east to west. [Springfield lias already been .o 1 <: -cribsd as being situated seme twelve m')"S west of Colenso. About six miles froir Jolenso The Tugsla river forks into two 1 anehes, the principal one coming in ' oni th» north-west, tmd a smaller one, ■ ; c Little Tu^ela, from the south-west R]- ingriokl is situated on the < Littl '--gela, sotno six iniiert from the main ' . 'er junction. Acion Homes is on a ti : outary of the Tugela jjvoper, about tif.oen miles north-west oi Springfield, and .wenty-five from the forks, while it is only some eighteen miles nearly due t-est from Jj.tdysmith. l% From the Upp ir Tugela to Acton Homes " wotiUl pro jably mean i along the line of the main c ranch as far as Acton Homes.]
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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 2, 3 January 1900, Page 6
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215SECOND EDITION. Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 2, 3 January 1900, Page 6
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