The Transvaal WAR.
BOERS IN SORE STRAITS. SHORT OP FOOD. ABANDON THEIR PRISONERS. Preit Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. BOERS EVACUATE THEIR POSTSUNABLE TO HOLD THEIR PRISONERS. LONDON, July 17. (Received July 18. at 9.(8 a. in.) Lord Roberts despatched a force of troops to dislodge the Boers fnim the positions they held in the kopjes to the north and north-west of Pretoria. The enemy, however, did not wait for their arrival, but evacuated the positions they held witboXit firing a ‘shot. The Boers are so sh:nt of food that they could not keep their prisoners, but allowed most of the Lincolns and Scots Greys captured by them at Nitral’s Nek on the llth inst. to escape, VAGUE INFORMATION. CAPE TOWN, July 17. (Received July 18. at 9.30 *,m.) A patrol of Australian Bushmen encountered a party of Boers oh the 13th ihst. (Friday). Death of a new zealandbr. WELLINGTON, July 18. The uncertainty as i 0 who the MThtyte ie whose death wee reported, and who Was referred to in a telegram from Mr Piioher published on Monday, is removed W the receipt of a message that ft is Private Robert MTntyre, bf Little River, a thertiber of the Third Contingent.
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Evening Star, Issue 11296, 18 July 1900, Page 4
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199The Transvaal WAR. Evening Star, Issue 11296, 18 July 1900, Page 4
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