BOER WAR MEMORIAL.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) (London Times-Sydney Snn Special Cables) CAPETOWN, December .16. 1 Commandos of tbe mounted burghers carrying rifles and bandoliers are mass■- ■ ing at Bloemfontein with a large gather- ' ing of Dutch clergy, to celebrate the unveiling^ of a memorial to those, who died during the war. ;-. Ten thousand people, including General Botha, attended to-day at Mrs Steyn's unveiling of a memorial to women and children who died at the t concentration camps. The town ia full of armed burghers living at a great ► military camp near the monument. The whole demonstration is a manifestation of Boer nationalism of a remarkable type * : ' ' " '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13258, 17 December 1913, Page 3
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108BOER WAR MEMORIAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13258, 17 December 1913, Page 3
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