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Show Situation at Slafeking Serious. j New York. Dec. 6. A dispatch to the Tribune from London says: While the war office has received intelligence that Mafeking was safe on Nov. 20. it ad- mitted that, the investment there was 1 closer than ever before. This is con- - J firmed by the Pall Mall Gazette corre- j spondent. but the Reuters' dispatches i . i one day later show that the Boers art? using new shells filled with a high ex- i plosive from ten ton guns, and thu the, situation is serious. j |