THE WESTERN FRONTIER
LONDON, March 19.
In driving back the Boers to their main trenches the garrison at Mafeking used grenades preparatory to giving the enemy a taste of the bayonet.
The shells from the home-made gun constructed by the garrison cannoi/ be fired with precision, although its erratic shells and the peculiar evolutions of the shelling jiroved bewildering to the besiegers.
The Baralongs have been armed in order that they may defend their own enclosure. - LONDON, March 20. The Boer fire upon Mafeking has slack-
Colonel Peakman, of the Kimberley Light Horse, had a brisk skirmish with 500 Boers opposite Fourteen Streams.
The inhabitants of the districts through which Colonel Peakman passed welcomed the Union Jack.
The trek of the rebels from Taungs and Vr^erg to" Damaraland was prevented by the Hottentot chief, who is -a son of Witbooi.
A British warship has landed men and guns at Walfiseh Bay, as a precaution against the Boers entering Damaraland.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2403, 22 March 1900, Page 38
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159THE WESTERN FRONTIER Otago Witness, Issue 2403, 22 March 1900, Page 38
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