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MAFEKING- - A GAME OF BLUFF

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Talk recorded in 1937 by the late Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, O.M.
Fifty years ago last Wednesday Mafeking was relieved. The scenes of rejoicing when the news reached London have become a legend, but what of the siege itself? Lord Baden-Powell was in command of the besieged garrison, and in this talk he describes the extraordinary ruses by which a Boer attack was held off for seven months.

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