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Imperial government to offer 70 commissions in army to colonials
Dispatches describe Boer resistance at various points, Canadian Mounted Rifles delayed by floods at Van Wyksviel, and reinforcements moving north. Reports note Gen Roberts daily cavalry reconnaissances and Boers blowing up coal mines in Natal. A Fr ee Staters border Kron stad and several Canadians hospital and signals a shifting phase of the conflict.
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Canadian Mounted Rifles
van Wyksviel
Victoria West District
Joubert
Transvaal
Pretoria
Canada
Natal
Lamner
Bloemfontein
Fauresmith