NAAUWPORT.
Tins place, which has been tho headquarters of Major-General French, who has the New Zealanders with him, is like a blunted crescent, bisected by the railway, the pcaition running east and west acroßß an open valley, and it is defended by redoubts connected by shelter trenches. Naauwport covers the Port Elizabeth-Bloemfontein railway, and the junction thence to the main Cape line, so that its strategic importance is oi the utmost value, and the "British must endeavour to hold it at all coats. General French's troops, however, extend to Arundel, near which the Boers have taken \\p evidently a pretty- strong position -with entrenchments running parallel with the railway.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9940, 17 January 1900, Page 2
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109NAAUWPORT. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9940, 17 January 1900, Page 2
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