HOME & FOREIGN NEWS
(reuter's telegrams.)
CAPETOWN.
Dec 26.
Further telegrams to hand regarding the disaster in Transvaal state that when the Boers attacked a detachment of the 94th Regiment the men were engaged in rescuing a number of swamped waggons, and being consequently without arms, were completely crushed by the large numbers of Boers who swept down on them.. News has also been received that the Boers at Potchefstroom murdered five Englishmen who were residing in the town, and as soon aa information of the outrage reached head-quarters a battery, of artillery was despatched and shelled the place. The enemy were completely driven out, and over 100 killed by the guns.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4034, 29 December 1880, Page 2
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