The Archive · 1900

Round & About Pari

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Versailles ies eleven or twelve miles south-west of B. il it can be call it), we went out to attack the Boers. from the Gan On Monday the 30th, (Blue Monday we Pai! il They are like water: you cannot hold of te Seine, ther We marched at) night, covered of simile from the Pala miles of ground, stayed out till late in the from the Gare Mu ntparnasse, on the left afternoon, fired a great number of shell bank, will set us d within half a anile Dut did not succeed in encircling the Boers as we hoped todo. Inthe meanwhile, two Vattalions and a mountain battery which had been told to go 10und behind the Boers, stumble plump into the middle of their Asnitres on the Seine, m main exmp or were on the road to it, when rom Paris, This is a they were sounded. They held out for and other ote several hours, as far as T can make out, and then surrendered—a fearful loss to us.

The following day our railway and

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