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Show COMPARED TO MAFEKING. Tho riuclty Garrison In Cape Colony Makes Gallant Defense. Capetown May 3-Rcports which have reached hern via Tort Nolloth, Western Cape Colony, dated April Hlh, nro to tho effort lint British columns ore now In cloeo touch with the British garrlion at O Oklep (about nineteen miles Inland from Port .Nolloth), and that tho idler of the llrltUh forco thera U practically com. pleled The. plucky little garrison at O Oklep has been , loselj Invested by tho liters for weeks i net nnd has put up a defence which enn Ic compared to that of Mafe-king Mafe-king The defenders of o Oklep suffered comparnlltoly law casualties but they wcri. subject lo cnrstuiit iilplug and had oi.aslnnal sharp bruilee wllh Ilia liners On ihe nlhi of April tih forty lloers rushed on outpost ii a kopje held by twenty of ho Sit It h garrison The lloers were repulsed and the British had four men wounded The women and . hlldren took refuge In a fortified schoolhoute Three, civilians and one girl have len killed in the town by long-raote lire from the lloers but the population Is cheerful und confident. |