FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE RECENT DRIVE.
Received February 14, 9.33 a.m.
London, February 13. The Daily Telegraph correspondent states that five hours' battle was fought on Friday night along the Blockhouse line from Heilbron onward. The Boers made frantic charges, seeking an outlet from the ring of fire and steel. Commandants Vanniekirk and Vandermerwe abd many rebels were captured. He estimates that the Boer casualties during tbe recent drive at a hundred (?), the total bag for two days being six hundred, including many colonial rebels. Twenty-three Boers have surrendered at'Middleburg. The Agents-General of the various oolonies meet to discuss the propriety of urging that the army meat contract be kept within the empire.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7388, 14 February 1902, Page 2
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113FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE RECENT DRIVE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7388, 14 February 1902, Page 2
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