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Show BOERS CROSS ORANCE RIVER. Move Over Into Cape Colony and Occupy Plitlllpatown. London, Oct. 14. The Free State burghers have crossed the Orange river riv-er into Cape Colony and occupied Pbil-lipstown. Pbil-lipstown. Their object is to cut the railway at De Aar jnnction, which is a strategic point. It is asserted that the Boers have arranged with Chief Linch-We, a prominent prom-inent chief of the northwestern border, bor-der, to take up arms against Great Britain. A dispatch from Mafeking says that Colonel Baden-Powell has just sent a strong British force from Mafeking toward the border with field guns and ambulances, presumably with a view of occupying advantageous defensive : high-ground, j |