The Boer War.
REINFORCEMENTS FROM CANADA.
BOERS AGAIN ACTIVE.
By Telegraph—Pross Association—Copyright London, March 11.
Do Wet has deolared that lie saw bis brother Piet and a number of former burghers onrollod at Brandford And Kroonstadt acting defensively against tho Boers.
Twelve hundred Canadians for General Baden-Powell’s South African Constabulary have sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia. De Wet, Froueman, and four hundred men are advancing northwards at tho rate of twouty-fivo miles daily. Tho British have re-occupiodjMaiis-burg.
Two robols have beon sentenced to doatli for attacking a train at Taibosclifontein. Others have received sontoncos of imprisonment.
RUBBISH FROM .STEYN. AN ADMISSION THAT WAS NOT REQUIRED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 12.19 a.m., March 13. London, March 12. Steyn, speaking at Phillipolis alter the failure of the invasion of Cape Colony, admitted that there was no chance of regaining the country.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 61, 13 March 1901, Page 2
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