NATAL REVOLT.
By telegrapji, Press Ass n, Copyrlgl Pietermaritzburg, July 4.
Colonels McKenzie and Barker attempted to surround Mesini’a impi, which is estimated to number eight thousand. A sharp fight ooourred with the enemy’s vanguard. Heavy fightiDg is proceeding. The main impi is not engaged. Many kraals are in flsmse.
Three hundred and fifty Zulus were killed in the fight with Mesini’s vanguard. Five Kaffirs, shouting for Bambaata, nee taucsted in tne suburbs of Johannesburg, after they had severely stabbed and robbed several persons, and raided native huts.
MORE FIGHTING.
Be telegraph, Press Ads’c, CopyEtgbt Reoeived 9 35 p.m,, July 5, Pietermanfzburg, July 5. Seven hundred rebels attacked a convoy of twenty-eight waggons, esoorted by 130 soldiers and twelve mules, at Bondsdrift. Three desperate charges were repulsed. Forty rebels were killed. o.ue trooper was killed.
London, July 5. Mr Keir Hardie, writing to a Zulu now at Edinburgh, declared that the wholesale massacre of natives in South Afrioa filled him with shame and horror. He hoped the Zulus would soon be able to defend themselves from the barbarities of hypocritical whites.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1801, 6 July 1906, Page 2
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