MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
SIR ALFRED RUNNER'S MISSION. A BRITISH DETxVUiijIENT CAPTURED. (Received March 4, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, 3rd March. Sir Alfred M'ilner's sildden departure from Capetown for Pretoria is believed to be connected with the supposed negotiations between Juord Kitchener and General Botha. It is announced that eighty of Kitchener's Pightiug Scouts who were 'attacked by a Superior forte of' l ßoor3 surrendered alter a prolonged fight, in which they sustained twenty casualties. The leport ii interpreted as referring to Colenbrander's Scouts, a force recently raised on the Rhodesian frontier.
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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 52, 4 March 1901, Page 5
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89MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 52, 4 March 1901, Page 5
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