A WAR STORY.
It has been said that many stories from the war are absolutely'untrue. The following beautiful connection from the pages of an American daily possibly reaches high-water mark. It is the story of the “ best shot in the Transvaal ” : “ He is now 55 years old, and never, it is claimed, has ho missed an object at which he fired. Two years since he had a productive gold mino and a flourishing family, but he lost his mine recently, and soon after his two sons were slain as thej wore fighting against the English. The loss of his mine troubled him little, but when he heard that his stalwart sons were no more, a great change came over him. Ho took his old flintlock rifle, which he called Lobengula, and with a bag of golden bullets he went to the front to fight the foes of his country. And it is said that during the recent battles, when the ambulances removed each day those who had fallen in battle, the physicans could readily pick out the officers who had been killed by Yan Bosboom, for instead of two ounces of lead or steel they had two ounces of gold either in the heart or in the forehead.”—Liverpool Post.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 1 May 1901, Page 4
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209A WAR STORY. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 1 May 1901, Page 4
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