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Title: Pretoria Friend
Description: Pretoria, British Army. 1900. Book, Pretoria Friend a complete set of seventeen issues of a four-page newspaper (Volume 1 numbers 1 to 17) published by the British military authorities June 26th to July 14th 1900. The title remains the same throughout the run but the subtitle The Authorised Medium for Official News" appears from issue 3. Size 41 cm by 26 cm. On good quality paper and in VG condition. The contents are a mixture of official proclamations in English and Dutch general news sport advertising and items of world news such as the crisis in China. The paper's origins would appear to be in the occupation of Pretoria by the British and the end of the conventional stage of the Boer War. Images available.".

Keywords: Military