SNUBS TOR THE TRANSVAAL.
GALLANT DUBLIN FUSILIERS RETURNING HOME. LORD ROBERTS' SUPPLIES DELAYED. 2000 PATIENTS IN THE BLOEMFONTEIN HOSPITAL. Received April 20, 0.3fl a.m. LISBON, April 19. Portugal has declined the Transvaal's offer of a loan to pay the Delagoa Bay railway arbitrat'on award. BERLIN, April 19. A semi-official announcement in Berlin "intimated that it would be useless for Mr Fischer, the Transvaal peace envoy, to -visit Berlin. LONDON, April 19. The First and Second Battalions of tho Dublin Fusiliers have started homewards from South Africa, owing to their depleted ranks. TlTe w<vnt of trucks is delaying Lord Roberts' supplies. There are 2000 patients in the field hospitals at Bloemfontein suffering fiom dysentery and enteric fever. Tlireo hundred Boers jire approaching Smith Geld, about 300 miles northeast of Bethulie.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10016, 20 April 1900, Page 2
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129SNUBS TOR THE TRANSVAAL. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10016, 20 April 1900, Page 2
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