THE BOER WAR.
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Lonbon, February 21
A goodsjtrain was derailed near Johannesburg. It contained Lord Kitchener's baggage, which was preceeding Kitchener, The armoured trucks attached to Kitchener's traiu hastened forward with the bodyguard, who expelled the Boers from the vicinity of the line. The invaders derailed a train on the Naaupoort-De Aar railway, near Taiboschfontein, and compelled the blacks riding on the trucks to stand over the hole from which ballast was taken, and then fired, killing two and wounding others. Schalkburger told the burghers that the cause was hopeless and their hostilities futile. He advised them to surrender, not in twos and threes, but as a nation.
Kruger has announced that he will be returning to the Transvaal af.er the war.
The Morning's Post's Pretoria correspondent states that a Boir report is in circulation that Kruger is returning to arrange the termination of the war.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 February 1901, Page 4
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152THE BOER WAR. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 February 1901, Page 4
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