ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER.
ENEMY A«AIN REPULSED AT KtMBERLEY.
FEVER FEAKED AT SPYTFONFEIN.
GOOD WOBK BY NAVA.L GUNS.
- Received December 12, 1.40 a.m. CaPl town, December 1 1 — The Boers were hsavily repulsed at Kimberley. There are indications of. an outbreak of typhoid at Spytfontein, owing to the inaofficient water supply. Tbe naval guns from Moddor shelled the northern kopjjs at Scholtynek, to the Bouth of Spysfonteio, which were crowded with Boers.
The Lyddite shells effected great slaughter, churning up an acre of ground, and iestroyiog the emplacement for the gaaa.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11697, 12 December 1899, Page 3
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91ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11697, 12 December 1899, Page 3
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