THE BOER WAR.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 24. Colonel Lukin on Sunday' surprisod Commandant Latigan’s laager, capturing 10 Boers, 70 rifles, some thousands of rounds of ammunition, aud many horses. Petrus Kloppor, an oath-breaker, has been hanged at Burghcrsdorp, and Ivlosson, a Somerset East rebel murderor, has been sentenced to ho hanged. Dr Jano Watherstonc, a noted Capo philanthropist, has been appointed a member of Mr Brodrick’s Concentration Camp Investigation Committee. Sho doclaros that tho nation’s first caro ought to bo tho soldiers, then tho British refugees and prisoners, and then the Boer refugees. Tho German Central Pro-Boer Committee has sent Kruger three hundred thousand marks for Boor women and children.
MORTALITY IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
London, July 25. Of 14,624 white men, 27,711 women, and 43,075 children in tho Boor concentration camps in June, 63 men, 138 women, and 475 children died.
Four rebels at Vryburg havo been sentcucod to penal servitude for ten years. Tho casualties in connection "with tho capturo of tho train near Beauport West woro chiefly amongst the Yeomanry and South African Horse. Private lies, a West Australian, has boon killed at Jamersfontein.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 167, 26 July 1901, Page 2
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