ORANGE RIVER COLONY.
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LONDON, July 22
Out of a total estimated population <tf 75.000 in the Orange Free State at the commencement of the war, 10,000 are now held by the British as prisoners. 35,000 are in refugee camps, and 17,000 are living- in towns held by the British. This leaves 13,000 still at large and unaccounted for.
The London "Standard," referring to the possibility of a Boer plebiscite, being taken on the question of peace, says that if the leaders act, and a plebiscite is granted, it v must necessarily include the Boers now in British hands, who*? verdict undoubtedly would be the preponderating one.
BRUSSELS, July 21
Kruger, in a note published ill the Brussels press, declares that he has informed the burghers that international complications were possible, but intervention hopeless.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 163, 23 July 1901, Page 5
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