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Show Situation at Mafeking. j Mafeking, Wednesday, Jan. 10 (vial Beira, Thursday, Jan. IS). Since the i artillery attack of Jan. 3 the Boers I have not fired so many shelifi at the j place. Natives report the Boer chief! gunner is wounded, that five men were j killed and that their breastworks were j damaged (Turing the recent engagements. engage-ments. Commandant Erasmus and his friends are reported to have departed and the i:o r forces in the vicinity are apparently fewc-r in number. Their estimated strength is 2.000 men. |