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Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-26 | Page 1 | Boers Rush British Outpost Guard and Fifteen Are Killed

Type issue
Date 1902-02-26
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wm2mkm

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Article Title Boers Rush British Outpost Guard and Fifteen Are Killed
Type article
Date 1902-02-26
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 1
OCR Text BOERS RUSH BRITISH OUTPOST GUARD AND FIFTEEN ARE KILLED LONDON Feb 26 Lord Lord Kitchener reports that six hundred Boers driving driving driving ing cattle rushed the outpost line near near during the night of February Feb- Feb and that some of them got through The Boers Boera left fifteen dead and and six sit itt rounded bounded on on the field A dispatch from Lord Kitchener made says A convoy of empty wagons was attacked and captured by the Boers southwest of Klerks Klerks- dorp Transvaal colony February The escort consisted of a force of the Imperial rial Yeomanry three new pew companies of the Northumberland and two guns The fighting righting was severe sever but have no furi further ier details I
Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wm2mkm/16679014