LAING'S NEK.
; EVACUATED BY THE BOERS. ■ EIGHT AT ALMONDS NEK. CARRIED AT THE BAYONET ; POINT. GOOD WORK BY THE DOR3ETS. ' ' Beceived Jnne 13, 10.20 p.m. London, June 13. General Hildyard forced Almond's Nek ( the last defile in the Drakonbsrgs, opening on to the Charlestown flats, thus imperilling the Boer retreat at Laing's Nek. The second battalion of the Dorset ' Eegiment carried the position at ' the point of the bayonet, assisted by the Third Oavalry Brigade. The British casualties were 100. It is officially announced that the Boers have evaouated Laing's Nek. General Buller is four miles north of ; . Volksrust.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11561, 14 June 1900, Page 3
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