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KRUGER AND STEYN. President Kruger has returned tc Pretoria. President Steyn, after appointing a deputy - President at Bloemfontein, went to Pretoria. He declares he is determined to fight to the last man. The struggle in the Free State, he says, is child's play compared to what it will be in the Transvaal. GENERAL BULLER. General Buller is pushing troops towards Van Reenan's Pass, the entrance to the Free State. . The Boers, in retiring from Ladysmith to Biggarsberg, exploded the railway bridges as far as Glencoe. They fired the Elandslaagte collieries, and threaten to destroy the gol*_ mines. CRONJE AND HIS STAFF. The British Government intends to intern General Cronje and those prisoners with him at St Helena. BRITISH IN THE TRANSVAAL. A flying column, which went through Zululand and has invaded the Trans vaal, scattered small parties of Boers. N.Z. TROOPER MISSING. Saddler James Aitken, No. 2 Company New Zealand Mounted Infantry. was reported missing after th Osfontein engagement. MAFEKING. The Mafeking garrison is despondent but determined to hold out. President Steyn is urging Commandant Suyman to storm the town and then hasten to his assistance, as the Free State is hard pressed. ; The. garrison at Mafehi. ? eatin" horseflesh and weevily bfcco'ts. S'nce the b. gintng ofth?seige 20 of the garrison have been killed wounded, and died of disease.
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Manawatu Herald, 10 March 1900, Page 2
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