THE KIMBERLEY RELIEVING ARMY.
♦ | REPORT FROM LORD ROBERTS. » GENERAL MAODONALD'S 1 MOVEMENT. » THE OBJECT SUCCESSFULLY ATTAINED. '. A BOER DESIGN FRUSTRATED. London, February 10. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts ex- > plains with reference to Major- » General Hector Macdonald's retiref ment from Koodoosberg, that that a officer fulfilled his mission of dispersing the Boers who had expected to traverse the Riet River Drift and cut Lieut.- General Methuen'a lines of communication. Major - General Macdonald also covered Colonel Broadwood's column j and all the arms operating m the . vicinity of Sunnyside. t The reinforcements under Col. 1 Babington, sent to assist Major- | General Macdonald, arrived during Wednesday afternoon on the right bank of the Reit river, and threatening north Koodoosberg. The Boers thereupon withdrew.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 36, 12 February 1900, Page 2
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119THE KIMBERLEY RELIEVING ARMY. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 36, 12 February 1900, Page 2
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