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Show BOERS BOMBARD A TRAIN. ! Brltlah Soldier-Train Completely Anulhll-I Anulhll-I ated In .Natal. ! London, October 15. An armored ! train has been destroyed south of Mafeking. Fifteen British troopers were killed. The Boers shelled the wreckage after the train was destroyed. de-stroyed. The war office has received the fol-j fol-j lowing dispatch from the general commanding com-manding the cape forces: "Capetown, Oct. l.". 1:40 p. m. An armored train for Mafeking escorting two seven-pounder guns sent from here to Mafeking, was attacked last night at Kraaipan. Appareutlj a rail had been removed. The train left the track and the Boers Bred into it with artillery for half an hour and captured cap-tured it. "Telegraphic communication with Mafeking is interrupted at Kraaipan The women and children have been sent to Capetown. The guns belonged ; to the colony. They are light and of old pattern. We have no details as to casualties.'' Apart from this destruction of the armored train, the most notable change in the position of affairs is the presence pres-ence of lioers at Maribogo, forty miles south of Mafeking, which seems to indicate in-dicate that they are endeavoring to get Colonel Baden-Powell between two fires. The gravity of the Boor advance can be better estimated when it is realized that they will thereby cut railway and telegraphic communication to the north, isolating several British possessions, posses-sions, which must be speedily relieved. Despite the optomistic reports of the ability of Mafeking to repel attack, the greatest anxiety prevails here regarding re-garding the situation there, as it is known that the redoubtable Command, ant Cronjc, who captured the Jameson Jame-son raiders, has the strongest force yet put into the field, with the exception of Coinmandaut-Geueral Joubert's force. The troops of Cronje number between y.000 and 10,000 men. |