DEATH OF GENERAL SYMONS.
iN#oMiATJt6jrhFROi^THE•' boeii " /. ' COMMAKDER. I ' SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF ■ commons: • ,■ijieceivod Octpboc 28, 12.30. a.m.) ... .i:,'-;;. .LONDON, Friday./" Information, lias-boen . rcceived-that General Joubert, commandant of. the Transvaal forces, has forwarded an intimation to Sir-Goorge.White, the British commander at Ladysmith, to the effect that Major-General SirW. P. Symons, has succumbed to the wounds ho jrccoived at the battle of Glencoe last week.',. (;/. J 1! IJ ■Q- w r ;,vi;' j / " Immediately the.melancholy hews was "by ithe ••WaolOfflco it was, .api nOiihtied, ,iri ‘tud 'Houspjof' Commonti;, All of thA inemhoi'siiificovei'ed aaiaiisighaFtif resimAt'. to' ’the ■.memory of, the dead sbltfieiv ■ ‘‘hr/f [lt appears | f,i.’oW’;this telegram" tlidt Sir William Syipbhs, (lied in'the.hands of the Boers. Noe-doubt ho;was left bchind« htu .Gleramovm'ynDimdeet-.with'tt’he other wounded ( aftet' J tLiouftt-Golhpel Yulc,.s f, retreat 1 ; ..Li 'Lady Kiriith ! his°, i n~ juries being in-all probability toq dcsparate to allow of his removal.} <
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3883, 28 October 1899, Page 7
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147DEATH OF GENERAL SYMONS. New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3883, 28 October 1899, Page 7
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