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An officer, on beings shown, some? Balaclava cape,.declared that theywere* much too big and so cumbrous, that no? soldier could ,l stow them away.!*' Lightness. is essential,. and ; they must be* compressible in o a-very sraallspace. Nothing short of extermination in the* j| course of war can prevent the Dutchi from being still iu a majority; If theequalrights idea is carried outonlysucha provision as an educational vote.save us.:—Natal Wiiness; 4^| During an afternoon’s i of . Magersfontein trenohes : Se&mcbtf Lieutenant Jackson was out with, some of. tho Ninth Lancers the Boer linea ; when.he came across a<._ house weakly defended. The troopers: 4 set it on fire and got away unscathed. Messrs.. Chmpton. and C0;,.0f Ohemsford, have offered to the-War Office six: . searchlights and fifty men. This means . I calling up the whole-of the-Ghelmsfordl I Electrical Engineering Corps, whoare* I i most eager to go.- I The' New York Journal publishes. a*l picture of a London volunteer rounded by his enormous kit, and how a- British, soldier can. be expi to win, carrying such'a load'. pap-rs make similar comments..
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Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22220, 31 March 1900, Page 2
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