THE BOER WAR.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 22, Ten fresh cases and five deaths from plague have occurred at Port Elizabeth.
The death-rate in tiie concentration camps during March was 45 per 1000. The Boers of the Western Cape surrounded and unsuccessfully attacked Okief. British reinforcements arrived and relieved the garrison. One thousand Royal Engineers are sailing to relieve men at the front. Mr Brodrick, in the House of Commons, said the Government were not prepared to publish Sir lvedvers Buller’s and Sir Charles Warren's explanatory and recriminatory statements regarding the despatches.
FICKSBURG FIGHT,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
London, April 23. Captains Sir F. Fowler, A. T. Blackwood, and three men were killed, and three officers killed and sixteen men wounded in the engagement at Olivier’s Farm, Ficksburg, on the 20th. There are also six men missing.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 398, 24 April 1902, Page 2
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