The Scout Who got in Mafeking.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 11, 26 June 1900, Page 4

The Scout Who got in Mafeking.

Lieutenant Frank Smithen^H the renowned Matabeleland s<MjH got through the Boer linejiM arrived at Maf eking on the |9 I April, oarrying an Imperial Goyj^H nient despatch for Colonel KaJM Powell. He had had au adveo^H oas journey, journeying tavo ui||H in coining from RamathlabaiwH foot. Lieutenant Smithenian,-^H knows every inch of the coutlM was accompaaied bp a clever B(l|^| runner, who uses a divining r QJJfI ascertain the position of Ihe en^H T&is rocl he handles afterJH fashion of the Wiltshire finders, thoroughly believing effitiency. <3n veaciiing M^ e^^B .Tjieuknant t'nuthtman got ">ij^H r- i i'ch trhicii p'oitets the J£aH iaagfv. F.r.iii unt^rtain wi^ aiJir-Qg fricjji'ls ck foes, b^^B an sxci'ipg iind mixious tims'^H the \aicea £>f thi> gitruson^^^H Ireucli r«iitt\t-d h-is -dt>«l) ( s °^^^| >t: ilh hm^elf I<ijo"\vij i.ien^^H bautbeman't- teat is one ofj^H uttuo^t iiuportance. OnlyJ^M whites entered th& iown si n ||^| beginning of l^ie iuveatmeD^H fit st being the Reuter*s and Association^ cyolbt. The ledge thus gained by Lieu^^H Smitheman of the position o^JB by the Boers in the snrroo^H coun}nry must have proved involj^H in assisting Pluniar's force HS^B tbesieg^. ,