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Boer War? Well, it's not war and it won't be a bore.(Column)

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20031018
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Byline: IAN WOOLDRIDGE

IN 1964, I walked into the cricket ground in Vereeniging, South Africa, to report a match. Over lunch, a charming local gentleman, something of a historian, said: 'Welcome back. We haven't had a Daily Mail reporter here for 62 years.' Who had been my predecessor? None other than Edgar Wallace, later a prolific thriller writer who could turn out a best-seller in two weeks to support his drinking and gambling enthusiasms.

What was he doing there? He was this newspaper's foreign correspondent covering the signing of the treaty which formally ended the ...

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