GENERAL BULLER'S ADVANCE.
FLIGHT OP THE BOERS. .United Frua Awooiation— By Eledtria > Telegraph— Copyright. ,'■_ (Received Feb. 22, 9.50 p.m.) ••'*■/ i LONDON, Feb. 22. , General ; Buller on Wednesday crossed the. Tugela by a pontoon bridge, and drove the enemy's rearguard forward, the Naval Brigade* 12-pounders silencing the Boer guns. , Th** British, on taking possession of the abandoned laagers, found many evidences „ 'Qt panic;- The enemy, in -their; hurried retreat, left quantities of- stores, ammunition, '• blanks t« 4 " Bibles and different varieties, of expanding bullets/ They also : abandoned their dead and wounded. The British 'ad-I'-'-wnce is now visible from Ladysmith. The ; Boer big, gun, "Long Tom," has vanished from Bulwana Hill, 'a position commanding <■ Ladysmith. Two hundred Boer waggons, with a large- . fcscort, departed from Colenso on Monday, j Dr Leyds declares that General Joubert, i finding the. position untenable, ordered the | Boers, in' Natal to concentrate in the. Free I • j-fitat^ thus raising the siege of Ladysmith. I
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6727, 23 February 1900, Page 4
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