Colonel Plumer, -who is doing such good work in the chase of De Wet, is a “ pocket soldier,” standing five feet nothing—or very little—in his stockings, and being broad—or narrow—in proportion. If he had to pass the present .War Office tests .as to weight he would have to conceal lead about Him. In popularity with his officers and men he rivals Baden-Powell, and men who .'were. under him say that if he had been allowed to have another, try he would have got into Mafeking long before the relief force started. Colonel Plumer is as “ slim ” as the • slimmest Boer of them all, but thero were no newspaper men with his force, and his amusing devices of keeping the enemy on tenterhooks have yet to be told. -
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 50, 28 February 1901, Page 4
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127Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 50, 28 February 1901, Page 4
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