General Methuen has forwarded despatches to the British War Office in which he describes the position of the Boers at Magersfontein. ...
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Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. : 1882 - 1946), Thu 21 Dec 1899, Page 2
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