THE WESTERN FRONTIER.
MAFEKING BOMBARDED,
BOER TRICK FRUSTRATED.
SMALL TOWN CAPTURED. Capetown, October 18. It is reported from Pretoria that ?. party of Boers under Commandant Piet Cronje, one of the chief leaders of the Transvaal forces, are bombarding Mafeking. It is stated that the Boers cut the water supply at Mafeking. They also captured a telephone at Modder River railway, and by sending false messages vainly endeavoured to trick the British officer in command of the garrison at Kimberley into revealing the scheme for the disposition of the British troops. Capetown, October 18. The Boers destroyed the railway at Lobatsi, about 50 miles north of Mafeking, and at Aasvogelkop. They also captured Taungs, a small town with a fortress, on the railway between Kimberley and Vryburg.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11199, 20 October 1899, Page 5
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