Battles of the nineteenth century . red. The curiouspart of the explosion, says Major Baillie in his -,i6 THE BOER WAR. diary of tlie siege, was that everyimc insistedtliat a shell had hurst exactly over the spot hehappened to he in, and it was not until the nextday (Sunday) tluit the occurrence was at Kimberley and Ladysniith, each Sundaybrought a welcome truce. There were churchservices in the morning, and then various amuse-ments were organised to enliven the weeklyholiday. Th;; band played, and there weresports and games. Sunday, the 5th, being Guy P ing into Rhodesia by the B
Battles of the nineteenth century . red. The curiouspart of the explosion, says Major Baillie in his -,i6 THE BOER WAR. diary of tlie siege, was that everyimc insistedtliat a shell had hurst exactly over the spot hehappened to he in, and it was not until the nextday (Sunday) tluit the occurrence was at Kimberley and Ladysniith, each Sundaybrought a welcome truce. There were churchservices in the morning, and then various amuse-ments were organised to enliven the weeklyholiday. Th;; band played, and there weresports and games. Sunday, the 5th, being Guy P ing into Rhodesia by the Boers. But when liefound that no raids were attempted, and that tiieenemy had only a handful of men engaged inlice work on their side of the frontier, he lefti small garrison at Tuli, and moved the rest ofhis force, seven or eight hundred men, to Palapyeon the Bulawayo railway. To the south therailway had been wrecked for riiiles by the organised a railway corps to relay it, andbrouo-ht down from Bulawayo a construction. LIMESTONE FORT, MAFEKING. Fawkes Day, there was a display of fireworks inthe evening, a flag of truce being sent out in theafternoon to tell the Boers what it meant, lestthey should be alarmed into opening fire. Onthe 7th a sortie was made in order to interferewith an attack which it was reported that theBoers had arranged for that morning. In the middle of the month the garrison wascheered with the news that Colonel Plumer,commanding the forces on the Rhodesian frontier,was trying to advance from the north to theirrelief. At the beginning of the war Plumer hadestablished his lieadquarters at Fort Tuli with afew hundred mounted men, and patrolled thenorthern border of the Transvaal to check raid- train and two armoured trains, and then beganto advance slowly southwards towards JMafeking,relaying the line as he went. It was not untilJanuary that he established his headquarters atGaberones, and then his presence on the rail-way to the northward began
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