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PRO-BOER PUBLICATIONS PROHIBITED. A MAIL TRAIN STOPPED. (Received February 25, 9.5 a.in.) London, .February 24. The Imperial Government supports the proclamation issued by JLord Kitchener prohibiting the circulation of newspapers and books calculated to encourage the Boers continuing resistance. It is estimated the Boers have lost a thousand killed, wounded and taken prisoners during January, over two hundred dead being actually counted. The losses in February up to the present ate estimated at SOO. The military tribunal at Johannesburg sentenced two burghers, captured in attempting to cuter Johannesburg, to be shot for espionage. An explosion on the track stopped the mail train from Natal to Johannesburg near Heidelburg on the 20 th. Thiee hundred Boers hiding fired on the train and wounded five pas scum rs. Troops arrived and repulsed the cuem v.
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Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 888, 25 February 1901, Page 2
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135THE LATEST. Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 888, 25 February 1901, Page 2
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