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Show BOERS ESCAPE BRITISH. Transports Leave Smaldeel as British Enter too Exhausted to Follow. Correspondents at headquarters are now wiring freel3' concerning the incidents inci-dents connected with the occupation of Smaldeel. Some exasperation is expressed ex-pressed at the ease with which the Boers escape with their transports before be-fore the very eyes of the British. For instance, when the British entered Smaldeel the Boer ox wagons coolly outspanned only five miles away, as if in contemptof the ability of the British Brit-ish to overtake them. |