ZULU OUTBREAK
TKOUBLE OVER, THE POLL TAX. PARTY OE TROOPERS AMBUSHED. TWO KILLED: OTHERS FORCED TO RETIRE. MILITARY MOBILISING AND i VOLUNTEERS CALLED OUT.
By, telegraph, Press Aos'n, Copyright Received 4.32 p.m., Feb. 11. Capetown, Feb. 10. Natives near Richmond, Natal, announced their refusal to pay the poll tax. Two armed natives were arrested, but forty armed Zulus, ambushing the party of police, the ringleader contemptuously struck Inspector Hunt in the face with the flat of his assegai. Inspector Hunt shot him dead.] A melee ensued.
The Inspector and a trooper were killed. The troopers were compelled to retire, one riding miles with an assegai in his back. : M artial law has been proclaimed. Carbineers and artillery are mobilising. / The volunteers have been summoned. The Transvaal authorities are guarding the Swaziland borders owing to the Richmond outbreak.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1671, 12 February 1906, Page 2
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