BOER LEADER'S ENTERPRISE.
ARMED INVASION OF ANGOLA. NOT SANCTIONED BY BRITAIN. Received May 1, 8.40 a.m. PRETORIA, April 30. General Francois Pirar, formerly a Boer leader, admits that he contemplated an armed invasion of Angola, in order to expel the Portuguese and annex the country for Britain. He abandoned the enterprise when Britain refused to sanction it.
The province of Angola comprises about half a million square miles in Central arid South-western Africa, adjoining the German and British possessions.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9080, 2 May 1908, Page 5
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79BOER LEADER'S ENTERPRISE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9080, 2 May 1908, Page 5
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