THE MAJERSFONTEIN BATTLE.
- . .. BOERS WERE PREPARING TO RETIRE. THEIR LOSSES EXCEED A . THOUBAND. ; (Received Deo. 10,9.15 a.m.) • v . Capetown, Deo. 15. ',;,. General Wauchope was Bhot eloae to '.the Boer trench, receiving bullets in his cheat and thigh. ;■' \ Borne Light Infantry entered the trenches, ■ ' capturing six Boers. ' ;: Lack of water supply compelled Lord Metbuen to retire four miles to the Mbdder River. ;: Eight thousand, half his command, were engaged. ,Oa Monday, the 11th, the Guards destroyed .a picket, numbering forty, in- ; • icludinff a member of the Volksruad. r .'cStJThe prisoners state the British artillery '; t^UtiretV; cleared the upper entrenchments £^^^y O ra*: was -passed to the Boers to preIJjApSre to Withdraw during the night. enemy's /casualties exceeded a ?S^ thousand,! '- . •■"■■ W%; "Colonel Heqtor ArohibaW Mac Donald, t^Vo "Sojdan ■.fame,; replaces Mojor-General . '.- .- ;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8697, 16 December 1899, Page 3
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130THE MAJERSFONTEIN BATTLE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8697, 16 December 1899, Page 3
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