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Boers Strike at British War Effort Across Africa
London reports describe an armored train destroyed near Mafeking with 300 women and children aboard, amid Boer advances and rumors of refugee movements. A British flying squadron forms as tensions rise with Russia and Germany, while a Dutch consul general is appointed to handle Transvaal interests in Britain.
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London
Transvaal
United States
Maine
Havana Harbor
Mafeking
Vryburg
Vrysburg
Baden- Powell
England
Great Britain
Germany
Russia
South Africa
Kruger
The
Globe
Colonial Office
Kraipan
Johannesburg
Pretoria
Lord Salisbury
Mr. Chamberlain
Alfred Milner
Reitz
Hague
South African Republic
H. J. Maas