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London, Jan. 18.
A Boer doctor states that during Chris Botha’s flight with Major Yollentin forty tw.. Boers were killed aud seventy wounded.
The Tiiucs’ Knnelo correspondent says that the latest .successes show that rapid night marches and surprises are the only means of catching the seared Boers and ending the war.
De Wet's chief officers by live against three ha-.e decided to fight two months longer.
A camp for the detention of Boer prisoners is being formed at Antigua, West Indies.
London, Jan. 14.
Colonel W ing intercepted l’iet Viljoen's letter announcing that General ,T. Oppcrman, chief loader of the South-Eastern commandos, had been killed in an engagement. Colonels Plumer and Wing found a grave with Oppermau’s initials on the cross.
Sir Gordon Sprigg, Cape Premier, in the course of a speech, said that Great Britain must accept no terms, only unconditional surrender, aud then give ,tho Boers just and generous treatment.
Sydney, Jan. 14. Colonel Williams has acceded to Lord Kitchener's request to return to South Africa.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 314, 15 January 1902, Page 2
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