TRANSVAAL TERRITORY INVADED.
HOISTING THE UNION JACK,
London, April 17. The correspondent of the Express states that Lieut.-General Sir Archibald Hunter, with a large force including, Major-General Barton's Fusilier Brigade, reached Wegdraai.
The Boers who wore in the neighbourhood retreated, and General Hunter proceeding entered Christiana, in Transvaal territory, about twenty-five miles north-east of Fourteen Streams.
The Scots Fusiliers, as the last regiment to leave the Transvaal after the war of 1881, were allowed the honour of hoistiug the Union Jack on Republican soil.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6700, 18 May 1900, Page 2
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84TRANSVAAL TERRITORY INVADED. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6700, 18 May 1900, Page 2
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