A FEMALE SPY.
Sydney, May 30. Lieut. Edwards, of the New South Wales Medical Corps writing from Bloemfontein, gives the following instance of treachery:—Some time ago the Intelligence Department was warned against a certain family. Apparently no heed was taken. One evening while one of the Misses X— entertained a party of officers,, the other mounted a bicycle and rode away to a Boer camp, when she gave such information that we lost a convoy and had three hundred casualties.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6710, 31 May 1900, Page 2
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80A FEMALE SPY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6710, 31 May 1900, Page 2
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