THE BOER WAR.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, March 21. A commando unsuccessfully tried to cross the railway southwards of Bloemfontein. Her Majesty the Queen, replying to an appeal from the women of Munich to use her influence to stop the immoral, cruel, and shameful conduct of the British troops in South Africa, wrote that the memorial was based on a complete misunderstanding of the facts. She regretted that the meeting of Munich women lent itself to groundless slanders against a friendly nation. DeWET AND DE LA KEY. TRYING TO JOIN FORCES. By telegraph—Press Association— Copyright London, March 22. Boer advices state that DeWet and Dc la Eey are trying to join forces in the vicinity of Parys. j By Telegraph—Press Association Wellington, Saturday. The Government are advised that Trooper J. T. Mclvelvie, of Mataura, of the Seventh Contingent, is dangerously ill of enteric fever at Norvals Pont. Sergeant-Major Malcolm (Nelson), Sixth Contingent, and Private Hedley (Canterbury), of the Seventh, returned by the Paparoa this morning.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 373, 24 March 1902, Page 2
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