An item reported that the British transport Suffolk according to tidings from Cape Town 30 kilometres West of Cape Francis and sunk. The edition dated 27 September reported that all 900 horses on board were killed. The newspaper Goessche Courant dated 4 October reported that she was stranded off Klipperpoint and that 930 horses destined for the battlefields in South Africa
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1. The Second Boer War found place between 11 October 1899 and 31 May 1902 and ended in a defeat of the Boers and regaining British sovereignty of the Orange Free State and South African Republic (Transvaal ). In 1920 became the Union of South Africa part of the Commonwealth.
