DESERTERS FROM THE BOER RANKS.
SICKNESS AND DESPONDENCY.
CAPETON, January 25.
Deserters from the Boer ranks declare that the miserable and inadequate sanitary arrangements in the camp at Magersfontein, added to a scarcity of all kinds of food excepting meat, are causing much illness and great despondency throughout the forces of the enemy.
A JOINT RECONNAISSANCE. CAPETOWN, January 25. A joint reconnaissance has been made in the direction of Rooipan 'by detachments of the British forces on the' Mo'dder and Orange Rivers. Trooper P. Falla, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, was wounded at Rooipan.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11642, 27 January 1900, Page 7
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