THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
. — « — . — CHASE OF A COMMANDANT. MRS DE WET. United Press Association — By Electrio Telegraph — Copyright. (Received Feb. 18, 9.16 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 17. Commandant Weasels is retreating, hotly chased, to the Marais-burg district. Mrs Oe Wet is comfortably housed in, a canvas cottage in the Mardtzburg- camp. She states that her husband would rather die than surrender, and that she would sooner bury him ilhaa see -him surrender. She expressed a wish for a floored house like General Smith's wife.,/ A .FRUITLESS MISSION. (Received' Feb. 18, 9.22 -a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 17. The British (Remount' Department sent agents to Russia to buy- horses. ■ The mission proved a fiasco. Districts were found abounding in good' horses, all earmarked for the 'Russian. Government's use.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7331, 18 February 1902, Page 3
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