GENERAL BULLER'S ADVANCE.
BOERS IN pul l RBTm pation =,1 R,,iio, i Lond °n, May 16. He dewrSf the occa. enemy as a hui^ hls burning the grass oi°vements of the them. "A the Boers Lord Dundonald's cavalry purVhmd commandoes all day on Monday, coyt. ing forty miles of waterless country, mostly through hot smoke. Major-General Gough's column, by making a flanking movement, manoeuvred the enemy out of a strong position. Two thousand five hundred Boers entrained at Glencoe with guns and stores, and proceeded thence to Dannhauser and De Jager's Drift. [Both places are a few miles north of Dundee, De Jager's Drift being a Buffalo river crossing into the Transvaal.] Major-General Hilyard's brigade has seized Wessel's Nek, a pass through the Biggarsberg mountains, on the main : line of railway south of Glencoe JuneI tion. Almost every house in Dundee was found to have been looted. The machinery had been destroyed. The special correspondent of the Standard states that the cayalry chased the Boer rearguard from ridge to ridge for seventeen miles.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6698, 17 May 1900, Page 2
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173GENERAL BULLER'S ADVANCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6698, 17 May 1900, Page 2
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