BOER ABUSE OF THE WHITE FLAG.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY LORD ROBERTS. . (Received Feb. 26, 12.40 a.m.) The last contingent pf the New South Walea Medical Corps will proceed to Sterkstroom. • Lord Roberts has announced that, owiiig * to the frequemt violation of tho .w*hite flag,. troops aie not compelled to aocept it. t :.,__ During the engagement at Klip Kraal, 76! Britishers were wounded, including Private Clive Flint, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, dangerously. Private John Orman, of the New South : Wales Contingent, died of enteric fever afc (Orange River. Tha largest crowd of any Saturday night
since the beginning of the war assembled •round the London newspaper offices TaW. ni^ht, but no intelligence came to han-Hrom . the frontt ' i
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6729, 26 February 1900, Page 4
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