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LONDON, February 24,
The 'Imperial Government supports the prVDolanuution issued by Lord Kitdheneiprohibiting the circulation •of newspapers and books calculated to encourage the Boers continiiing resistance. .
It is estimated the Boers lost a thousand killed, wounded, and prisoners during January, over two hundred dead being actually counted.
1 The losses in February up to the pre-_ sent are estimated at 800.
Tho -military tribunal at Johannesburg have sentenced two burghers captured in attempting to enter Johannesburg, 'to be shot for espionage.
An explosion on the track stopped the mail train from Natal to Johannesburg near Heidelburg on the 20th.
Three hundred Boers were in hiding and fired on" the train wounding five passengers. The troops arrived and repulsed the enemy.
Lieut Morrison, of the Canadiiin artillery, declares the New York Sun garbled his letters from the front, and pro-Boer journals in Ertgland copied the garbled account? and the conciliation committee founded their statements or the. same.
Mr Leonard Courtney reproduced" them,
The Daily Chronicle's exposure has ,led to the withdrawal of the pro-Boer pamphlet and the promise to publish Morrison's letters in extenso.
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9878, 25 February 1901, Page 2
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