FIGHTING NEAR COLESBERG.
TROOFS RAPIDLY ARRIVING.
NORTHERN FRONTIER.
CAPETOWN, January 30.
General Clements made a demonstration, .■wliich drew the enemy's fire in the vicinity of Baetfontein, in the Colesberg district. Two hundred Boers, pursuing the retiring infantry", fell into an ambush, the Worcester Regiment killing several of them.
The New Zealanders took part in. the ruse.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2396, 1 February 1900, Page 38
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