Item HAMILTON, ISM 2/5/10 - Telegrams to Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Hunter, GOC 10 Division, South Africa, May 1900

Telegrams received by Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including from Maj Gen Arthur Henry Paget, reporting the advance of his 20 Bde on Boer forces near Warrenton, Cape Colony, 5 May; from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, reporting his capture of Kroonstad, Orange River Colony, 13 May; from Military Secretary, HQ, enquiring on the behaviour of Hunter's troops in Vryburg district following Boer allegations of property destruction, wanton slaughter of animals, and ill treatment of the sick, 18 May; from Maj Gen Geoffry Barton, commanding 6 Bde, reporting the entry of the column of Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon into Mafeking, 21 May. With daily indexes. 1 file