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town, but entrenched .themselves on the mountain opposite. The Boers shelled the British for tlnee days, but there were only five casualties. When General Bruce Hamilton approached on Tuesday evening the Boers fled, but not before they had looted Ladybrand and captured a whole troop of British horses. The Boers learned the /whereabouts of the latter from an escaped prisoner, who revealed the place of their concealment. The Boers lost 24 killed and 36 wounded at Ladybrand. They retreated north to Allandale. A commando is threatening Wepener, in the Orange River Colony, near the border of Basutoland. September 8. The British have, evacuated Ladybrand. The besiegers were Boers previously repulsed by General Bruce Hamilton at Winburg on August 26. Later messages state that Commandant Pomes and the raiding parties who took part in the siege of Ladybrand are laagered in an inaccessible mountain between Maqualting Nek and Winburg, and are daily recruiting -burghers released on j>arole.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2426, 12 September 1900, Page 29
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