FOURTEEN STREAMS
MAFEKING NOT RELIEVED. PRETORIA PREPARING FOR SIEGE. MURDEROUS WOMEN. Received March 24th, 9.10 a.m. London, March 25. Free Staters are surrendering many inferior weapons, and there is an impression that they are concealing their Mausers. Cape rebels are disarming slowly, and are believed to be hiding rifles. The Boers are massing and are entrenched at Kroonßtad. A. reconnaissance at Fourteen Streams on the 21st resulted in an artillery duel lasting the whole morning. The Boer guns were silenced. The Times states that Colonel Plumer after the reconnaissance at Kamathlabama retired at night to Crocodile Pools, and that his base hospital has been removed to traberones. Pretoria is preparing for a two years' siege. Boer women demand that the British prisoners shall be Bhot,
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3220, 26 March 1900, Page 2
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125FOURTEEN STREAMS Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3220, 26 March 1900, Page 2
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