AN AMUSING INCIDENT.
A rather amusing episode occurred about noonday after the surrender of Eloemfontein A Boer doctor had been sent to Petrusburg with an ambulance and on returning to the pl ace he had tt ft'J iei° de llterally '"to the arms of the Headquarters staff. He proved to be a man of humour, as well as of sense. As he put it he was the " first man in the war to have the honour of being personally captured by a FieldMarshal."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6696, 15 May 1900, Page 4
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83AN AMUSING INCIDENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6696, 15 May 1900, Page 4
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