BOMBARDMENT OF MAFEKING.
The latest advices with reference to the situation in Mafeking, British Bechuanaland, on the western boundary of the Transvaal, is contained in a message received by way of Pretoria.
It appears that the town is now besieged by a force of Boers under- Com* mandant Croje. The assilants are reported to be bombarding the town, and to have cut off the water supply in the endeavour to starve the inhabitants into submission.
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Manawatu Herald, 21 October 1899, Page 2
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75BOMBARDMENT OF MAFEKING. Manawatu Herald, 21 October 1899, Page 2
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