PROGRESS ON THE NATAL SIDE.
GENERAL BULLER CROSSES THE TUGELA. BOER GUNS SILENCED. THE ENEMY'S HURRIED RETREAT. SIEGE Of LADYSMITH RAISED. (Received 22,11.40 p m.) London, February 22. General Boiler, on Wednesday, crossed the Tugela by a pontoon bridge, and drove the enemy's rear-guard forward. The Naval Brigade's twelve-pounder silenced the Boer guns. The British, on taking possession of the abandoned laagers, found many evidences of panic. The enemy, in their hurried retreat, had left quantities of store?, ammunition, blankets, Bibles, and different varieties of expanding ballets. They had also abandoned their dead and wounded. A British advance is now visible from Ladygmith. The Boer big gun, " Long Tom," has vanished from the Bullwana Hill, a position commanding Ladysmith. Two handred Boer waggons, with a large escort, departed from Colenso on Monday. Dr. Leyds declares that General Jonbert, finding the position untenable, ordered the Boers in Natal to concentrate on the Free State, thus raising the siege of Ladysmith.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 44, 23 February 1900, Page 3
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159PROGRESS ON THE NATAL SIDE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 44, 23 February 1900, Page 3
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