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FICKSBURG RE-OCCUPIED BY BRITISH. , FRENCH'S MOVEMENTS. THE BLACK WATCH. THE RECEN.T FIGHTING. THE YEOMANRY INCIDENT .'■■ '■■■■> LONDON, December 30. The British have reoccupied Ficksburg. Major-General French is>. at Ventersdorp. • . Of the missing troops at Nooitgedacht seventeen of the Black Watch were killed. - Lord Blackwood was wounded severely in the chest during the Lancers' attempt to outflank Kruitsinger. Lieut.-Colonel Spragge, who command ed the battalion of Irish Yeomanry which surrendered at Lindley, and Lieut. Woodhouse, have resigned their commissions as the outcome of the reopening of the matter.
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9830, 31 December 1900, Page 2
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87LATER Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9830, 31 December 1900, Page 2
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