FLIGHT OF THE COMMANDOES.
London, May 14. On Friday last Lieutenant-General French's cavalry seized one of the drifts over the Valsch river, but too lato to cut the railway north-east of Kroonstad, as the Boers had already gone.
A large bridge to the southward of, Kroonstad was found to be destroyed, but another had been left intact.
A force of the enemy is now entrenching at Staat, to the west of Ventersburg. The British front extends for thirty miles rounding off the enemy's forces. Some of the commandoes are proceeding east along the Harrismith road to Lmdley, the newly-created capital of the Free State.. y Others, consisting of broken bands of fugitives, are driving their herds in the same direction towards Bethlehem.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6696, 15 May 1900, Page 2
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122FLIGHT OF THE COMMANDOES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6696, 15 May 1900, Page 2
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