THE WAR.
DAILY CAPTURES.
KING'S FAREWELL TO TROOPS.
Received January 16, 10.42 p.m.
London, January 16. Twenty-five of Brand's commando rarf the gauntlet of a heavy fire of tho blockhouses from Thaba 'Nchu in the direction of Dewetshoop. Small batches of Boers, aggregating a considerable number, are being captured daily.
De Wot is north-east of Lhidley. Received ' January 17, 0.20 a.m.
London, January 10. King Edward, while inspecting and God speeding the brigade of 1200 men selected from tho Guards Regiments, embarking for South Africa, trusted that their duties would be less arduous than had been the case with those previously sent to tho front, and that the war would come to a speedy end.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7365, 17 January 1902, Page 2
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