Sinn Fein achievements in the direction of cattle-driving pale before an exploit credited to Christian de Wet, our formidable Boer antagonist, who is now lying duoderoosly i He was sti to have forced a herd of cattle before him to break down the wire on the Lindley-Kroonstad line of blockhouses in order that his commando might gallop through. De Wet, in his "Three Years War," is very scornful on the matter. "This is the way the English write the reports," he says. As a matter of fact, according to his version, the Boers crept up to the wire in the dark and cut'an opening not! more than a hundred paces from a blockhouse and penetrated without alarming the garrison. They did have 500 or 600 head of cattle with them, but these had gone astray in the night. However, they were brought through the gap at dawn by four Heilbron burghers with the loss of only 20 beasts. And that is how the story arose. which is a Hamburg vessel, carrying cargo-rivets from Grangemouth, is the first German ship to enter Scarborough since an armed crew of the Arethusa brought in a large enemy trawler during the war.
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