THE GALLANT BAND AT MAFEKING.
A BRILLIANT SORTIE ON THE 2Gtii. GALLANTRY OF OUll FORCES. (Received 7, 7 p.m.) Capetown, January 6. An armoured train made a sortie from Mafeking on the 2Gth, with a view topushing back theenemy's cordon to the northward. The Boers were forewarned, and doubled their forces during the night. The British displayed the greatest gallantry, in the face of a withering fire, and endeavoured to scale it fort in an impregnable position. Eighteen were killed (including Capitain Vernon Sandford) and twenty - | three wounded. Colonel Baden-Powell, in his report, makes no mention of Lords Cecil and Cavendish Bontinck, whom the Boers asserted were wounded. BOERS USE EXi'LOSIVK EULLETS.
(Kecked 7, <i pin.) London, January 6. Tlte Times correspondent .states that the Boers used explosive bullets in the fight at Mafeking on the 20th, and that they plundered the dead and wounded,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 6, 8 January 1900, Page 2
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145THE GALLANT BAND AT MAFEKING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 6, 8 January 1900, Page 2
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