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Show BOER WOMEN FRANTIC. "Want to Shoot the Rrifcisb Officers Imprisoned Impris-oned at Pretoria. It is reported from Lourenzo Marques that Pretoria is prepared to withstand a siege for two years; that the Boer women, frantic at the reverses to the Boer army, are entreating to be permitted per-mitted to shoot the British officers now imprisoned at Pretoria. It is also announced an-nounced from the Transvaal capital that the Italian government has declined de-clined to intervene. Winston Churchill, telegraphing from Ladysmith, pleads for mercy iu dealing with rebels. He says: "We must not try for our pound of flesh. No real conqueror ever lost by clemency, cither in this world in or the next. We havo by no means a monopoly of tho right in this quarrel, and our African record does not entai! on us to judge harshly. " |