THE BOER WAR.
[PER PBfeSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] Soldiers to be Retained Beyond
their Term.
25 Women in a Mountain Cave
received this day, at 9 35 a.m. London, October 8,
An army order published stated that during the present emergency in South Africa soldiers will be detained at the frontier three to six months beyond the period for which they enlisted, f>lo with £3 for each additional months service will be paid to each man as. compensation.
Elliot’s mobile column found 25 women concealed in a cave on a high mountain at Brandwater. The Boers had hauled the women into the cave with ropes. The women desired to be released, but the British found it impossible to release them.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 October 1901, Page 3
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