ELOFF'S DESPERATE FIGHT.
London, June 22,
Details of ElofFs desperate fight at Mafeking show that Colonel Hare was instructed to retire, but the order earn* too late. The Boers telephoned " You can't touch us. We have Hare prisoner." The Times' correspondent says :— Shortly after sunrise we found ourselves face to face with an extraoadinary military position. All our outlying works were intact, and we had lost hardly any men, yet three bodies of the enemy were right inside our lines and surrounded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue XXXVIII, 25 June 1900, Page 2
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82ELOFF'S DESPERATE FIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue XXXVIII, 25 June 1900, Page 2
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