CHEERING MESSAGE FROM LADYSMITH.
ABLE TO HOLD OUT FOB WEEKS. SPLENDID RESCUE OF A GUN BY THE BOERS. (Received 13,9.5 a.m.) Londok, February 12. Ladysmith has sent a reassuring heliograph message to the effect that the garrison is able to hold out for some weeks yet. It is estimated that the Boons lost 100 men at Vaul Krantz. l'he British were about to seize a Maxim-Vickers gun when Viljoen, a lioer officer, with a team of hora&i splendidly rescued the weapon, under the eyes of the British and amidst a storm of lyddite shells.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 36, 14 February 1900, Page 2
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94CHEERING MESSAGE FROM LADYSMITH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 36, 14 February 1900, Page 2
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