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Show Kruger'H Kr-phe'V ruptured. Skeleton messages f rom Loureneo Marques, based on information that leaked out at the Pretoria war office, .show that the Iloer stormers at Mafe-k'ing Mafe-k'ing fell into a trap. Colonel Baden-1'owell, Baden-1'owell, permitted them to seize one fort, and he then ourrounded and overbore over-bore them before the large forces near at hand perceived the strategy. It was thus that Sarel Eloff, President Ivrug-er's Ivrug-er's grandson, and part of his command were taken and many Boers killed. The dispatch says: "Commandant Eloff, grandson of TYesiden t Kruger, with a patrol, entered Mafeking, whereupon Colonel Faden-Fowell opened fire on the burghers, killing seventeen of them and taking Eloff and ninety of his men prisoners. i |