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Show "When General Louis Botha passed through Vry. held a few weeks ago," says "Tho London Chronicle," Chron-icle," "the impression given by his good spirits was that he was pleased with the 'terms', while one of the officers of his staff confidently declared that peace would be proclaimed in a fortnight. The Eng. lish commanding officer went out to exchange courtesies court-esies with Botha, and our infantry gave him a guard of honor until ho joined his own burghers a few miles out of Vryheld. All this is as might bo expected; but a strange incident occurred. The English officer of-ficer in charge of the escort was presented to General Gen-eral Botha's secretary, Jacobus de Wet, who had been three years at Oxford, and to his aide-de-camp, Louis Eslem, also a 'varsity man. They were evidently evi-dently anxious to get speech with our lieutenant, and the first words were, ' Who won the boat race V " |