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biscuits ancI^^HMRHH|^HRNP but when both can be got we /get a fair share. While at Kimherley I went around the town, and saw > the effects the Boer 100-pounder had on it. It played up all right, and it's a wonder the people held out. They were feeding the last three weeks ot the siege on horse flesh and bran biscuits only, and not much of that either. By the open look ol the town, the Boers could easily have rushed it if they had pluck enougb, but mv opinion of them since I left New South Wales has completely changed, and I now regard thejtn as a mean, cowardly, unprincipled lot of beggars, without pluck. What puzzles me is how their generals got them to rush Lady- ! smith."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6708, 29 May 1900, Page 4
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