NATAL REVOLT.
A BISHOP’S CHARGES. PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 9.53 p.m,, July 20. Pietermaritzburg, July 20. Two hundred natives surrendered to Colonel McKenzie, expressing joyful surprise at tbo lonionoy of tbo terms. They fully expected to bo shot. They declare witeh doctors' assertion that unices they killed the whiles the God Mabelgozo would Bond a pectilenco foroed them to rebel.
Received 10.8 p.m., July 20. The Bishop of Zululand oharged Roystan’s Horse with shooting natives in oold blood, stealing tbe cattle of loyal natives, and other conduct disgracing Englishmen. A military Court of Enquiry mainly exonerates tho oorps. It oon«. aiders it unavoidable that five natives should be shot while trymg to escape. Colonel RoystoD admits that the column looted stock belonging to natives who were believed to be disloyal.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1814, 21 July 1906, Page 2
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