THE GALLANT MAFEKING GARRISON.
SAFE ON Ist APRIL. Received 11,1.8 am. London, April 10. Mafeking was safe and cheerful on the Ist inet. The enemy, on the 23rd, abandoned their advanced trench to the eastward. Sergeant Page, of the Cape Police, examined a mine he laid in the rear of a trench prior to the siege, He discovered that the dynamite had gone, and, suspecting that the abandoned trench had been mined, he made a search, and unearthed a copper wire, which he cut, and found it connected with 2501db of gelatine and dynamite under the trench. A BOER DODGE. Received 11,1.30 a.m. Loxdos, April 10. After abandoning their advanced trench at Mafeking the Boers trekked outwards, and then moved to the westward, concealing 500 men, with three guns, in a hollow. \ Colonel Baden-Powell, noticing this, ' declined their ambush.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 89, 11 April 1900, Page 2
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139THE GALLANT MAFEKING GARRISON. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 89, 11 April 1900, Page 2
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