The Matabele War
|Pkk ruKss Association. ] Capktown, October 16. Heavy rains hare been falling, which. it is feared, will impede (he movements of tlie British forces in Mashonaland. Sir H. Loch invited those who were wilhns to serve against the Matabeles to come forward, in response to which the whale contingent of the Black Watch volunteered, besides others from Joban* nesberg. October 17. The Government have selected 100 of the Black Watch and other volunteers for service in Mashonaland. The British South Africa Company ( has communicated to Kcuter's Agency ] the following telegram : — Capetown, August 25, 2.12 p.m. — Collenbrander , brings message from Lobengula to High j Commissioner and Mr C J. It bodes. Substance as follows : — " I shall pay no* thing nor do anything to make good y damage to Europeans, their crops, home- i steads, etc., until Mashonns, men, ] women, and children, to whom you i grant protection, Victoria, are Riven up to me, Lobengula; they are my slaves ; bad 1 known then what 1 know now, I ] should have given itnpi orders to lako t beasts belonging to Europeans, nml to 1 take all they could lay hand to belong- 1 ing to European*.' " I
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 94, 18 October 1893, Page 2
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196The Matabele War Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 94, 18 October 1893, Page 2
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