FRONTIER WAR.
ENEMY SURPRISED
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Reuter’s Telegrams (Received January 15, 12.55 p.m ) D'JifiH], January 14. Advices from Kotkai dated January 11, state that our covering parties while constructing picket posts were attacked and driven hack after a hand-to-hand struggle iu which the enemy suffered heavily. The post lias not been established. On January 11 Lucas’s Brigade moved out to reoamp near Gnrlamakach. and seized the hills and plateau overlooking the enemy, who were additionally surprised when Gwyn Thomas’s Brigade occupied a post overlooking Amnwitangi. The tribesmen retreated, enabling our forces to picket the hills-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19846, 15 January 1920, Page 5
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96FRONTIER WAR. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19846, 15 January 1920, Page 5
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