TROUBLE IN ZULULAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 6 December 1907, Page 3

TROUBLE IN ZULULAND.

martial law proclaimed United Press Association— Copyright NATAL, Dec. 4. A son of the celebrated chief Job Dunn -states that the rebels a ■ Nkandhlar are few, while there is f xestlessness among those on the IBlack Umvolosi river. The chief Dinizulu is at Ustinia'. Th© Natal mounted force, wifi ifour guns, is at Ginginhloye, whenr •Colonel McKenzi# advances to-day Martial law has been proclaimed r Zululand. THE WILY REBEL. SENDS DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE. 15UT GOVERNMENT DOES NOT RELAX PREPARATIONS. (.Received Dec. 5, 10.50 p.m.) DURBAN, Dec. o. ' It is stated by the Govern men I that the evidence ill the recent series of murders of loyal natives show: that it was intended to force a I natives to camp, and then on a s:j? _nal have a general rising. The Government’s action took tin -conspirators by surprise and saved the Jiyes of other loyalists, includin'?’ 'Chief Subindi, whom the Government is Miecially protecting, owing -to his fidelity at a critical period of .1900. . , The Natal Advertiser s correspondent at Esliowe states that Dinizulu repeatedly offered to go to MarrtzHjiirg whenever required. 'He is illsuffering from swollen legs. ! Mr. Saunders, Commissioner o. Zululand. conferred with Colonel Mackenzie, and accompanied portion of the troops to the front. - Dinizulu telegraphed to the. Government expressing surprise at the preparations, and asking ’why it thought in the wrong he had nw been tried and punished if guilty. The telegram is attributed to. the ■presence of 200 police ..watching -.fa until the- main force arrives. The Government acknowledged the -message, but hast not , modified its Mackenzie has been given absolute power and discretion with n view to ending an intolerable situation.