A SERIOUS BRITISH REVERSE.
CLEMENTS DRIVEN FROM
HIS POSITION.
FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTYTHKEE BRITISH MISSING.
FOURTEEN BRITISH KILLED.
DE WET BREAKING
THROUGH.
AN ATTACK ON UTRECHT
REPULSED.
DESTROYING AND DAMAGING
THE RAILWAY,
A BOER GENERAL KILLED
Despatch of Mounted Troops
SOUTH AUSTRALIANS RETURN-
ING TO FIGHT,
NEW ZEAL-ANDERS TO REMAIN
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
GENERAL CLEMENTS'S REVERSE.
A BOER ATTACK SUCCESSFUL.
LONDON, December 14.
A serious reverse has befallen the force commanded by Major-general Clements, north-east of Krugersdorp.
Twenty-five hundred Boers attacked the British, * who, after losing heavily, were obliged to withdraw to Hekpoort.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11918, 17 December 1900, Page 5
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93A SERIOUS BRITISH REVERSE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11918, 17 December 1900, Page 5
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