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Show BOTHA BECOMES ACTIVE. Boer General Still Keeps the British Guessing. Guess-ing. General Botha is showing increased activity. His patrols cover wide stretches of country, approach near the British outposts and engage in skirmishes, skir-mishes, while larger bodies threaten to attack, declining to allow themselves to be caught by the return blows which the British promptly seek to deliver. de-liver. Attacks of this sort were made on Friday last at Pinaarspoort on General Gener-al Pole-Carew and at Springs. Generals Gener-als Botha and De Wet are seemingly operating in combination. Botha is reported to have divided his force into two parts, one moving west and the other to the south to try to effect a juncture with De Wet. |