ZULU OUTBREAK
A PRETENDER ARRESTED. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m) CAPETOWN, August 5. The arresfc of a pretender to the Regency of a minor Zulu tribe, and two hundred followers, on a charge of public violence 'terminated an alarmist week-end in Northern Natal. On Saturday night, the uncle of the pretender Giba, was found assassinated. Giba and seven hundred followers attacked the Kraal of the Regent who waited till dawn on Sunday and routed Giba, and chased him twelve miles. A fiery cross blazed from hill top to hill top. Women and children took refuge in the mountains. Europeans were undisturbed.
Aeroplanes enabled a mobile squadron to master the situation. Thirteen bodies were found.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1931, Page 6
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121ZULU OUTBREAK Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1931, Page 6
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