THE BOER WAR.
PUNISHMENT OF REBELS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 26. Colonel Skoboll on Sunday captured ten Boers.
Sorgt.-Major McGillivray, a South Australian, has been killed at Yankollens iOntein.
a rc '-’ e * s at Kenhardt and two at Middlebuvg havo been executed. Thirteen rebels at Dordrecht have boon sentenced to penal servitude for life, and two to tne and ten years respectivelv. I ii\ ates Walter Miller and William Rutherford, of the 7th New Zealand Coilfulgent, have been slightlv wounded at Luldigue. In the House of Commons Mr Bvoduck stated that there was only one instance of burghers being compelled to attend an execution. ’The circumstances were exceptional, and it was doubtless intended to have a deterrent effect.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 168, 27 July 1901, Page 2
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