BULLER’S OPERATIONS
RETIREMENT OF THE BOERS. ; THE PRESENT POSITION. LONDON, June 11. , General Buller’s concession of an armistice to the enemy is criticised as end.bling the force which he had surround! d to escape, with its guns. The present situation is that the British troops have turned the Boer positions in the Drakensberg ranges, and forced the Boers to retire into tne Transvaal in the direction of Standerton. On flunday night the British troops occupied a defile at the junction of the Klip r.vc? and the Gansvlei, anticipating three thousand Boers, armed with heavy (;mis, who wore dispersed by the movement. In the engagement six men were killed on the British side and seven wounded.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4075, 13 June 1900, Page 7
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