AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT.
Received October 2, 9 a.m.
London, October 1.
Twenty Gordon Higlanders were killed while exploding Boer ammunition seized at Komati Poorfc.
Lieut.-General Baden-Powell, at Pretoria, commands twelve thousand Transvaal and Orange Colony police. Received October 2, 9.10 a.m.
London, October 2.
The Grenadier Guards have left Komati Poort on their return home. The Coldstreams follow.
London, October 1.
Casualties : Privates Hartley and Lemon (New South Wales), and Private Hallett (South Australian) died of enteric fever.
Thirty ■ four battalions of British militia are being disembodied.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 70453, 2 October 1900, Page 2
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87AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 70453, 2 October 1900, Page 2
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