SURPRISE OF A LAAGER.
PRISONERS' STORIES. BOERS SHORT OF AMMUNITION. United Press Association — By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright. (Received Feb. 17, 9.37 a.m.) . LONDON, Feb. 16. Colonel Kekewich's- mounted infantry surprised \a laager at Koffyfontein and captured ten Boers, including Lieutenant Barnard, commanding Commandant Kemp's bodyguard. . Prisoners recently captured state that De La Rey has issued orders to avoid large bodies of the British, and also that amxnu- j nition in the Boers' ranks is scarce.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7330, 17 February 1902, Page 3
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