IN ORANGE RIVER COLONY.
COLONEL DALGETY IN A WARM CORNER. LONDON, 12th September. News* has been received that on Friday Colonel Dalgety'p Brigade got into a tight corner at Quaggasf ontein, suffering a loss of twelve killed and thirty wounded. The Boers admit losing five killed and nine wounded during the engagement. [This is apparently the same affair of which we received news last Friday, when it was represented as an engagement between the Kaffrarian Rifles and the Boers. It must, therefore, have been fought on Friday week. Colonel Dalgety will be remembered as the commander of the British force which was besieged in Wepener in May.] BRITISH COMMANDEERING HORSES. HUNTER'S OPERATIONS IN THE EAST. (Received September 13, 9.28 a.m.) LONDON, 12th September. The British at Phillopolis, in the southwest of Orange River Colony, have commandeered all rideable horses, giving receipts to the owners.' The horses are to be sent to Cape Colony, lest flying commandoes should loot them. Lieut. -General* Hunter has withdrawn the British garrisons at Ladybrand, Ficksburg, and Senekal, in the east, in order to assist him in pursuing 'and enveloping the Boer commandoes. The stores from these places have been safely conveyed to Basutoland.
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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 64, 13 September 1900, Page 5
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198IN ORANGE RIVER COLONY. Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 64, 13 September 1900, Page 5
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