A BOER CAPTURE.
ORANGE RIVER COLONY'S
POPULATION.
NEARLY ALL-IN HANDS OF .-.:■! BRITISH..
Received July 23, 9 a.m.
London, Jiily 22
The Boers captured 17 of the South African Constabulary near Petrusburg.
Out of a total of the Orange River Colony population of 75,000, 10,000 are prisoners, 35,000 are in refugee camps, 17,000 are living in towns he.d by the British, and 13,000 are still at large.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 168, 23 July 1901, Page 3
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