TORPEDO TRAP FOR ZULUS.
A correspondent of the Natal Witness : —“ As, I mentioned in a previous despatch of mine, we were some days past engaged in repairing the road, or rather the hroken-np pathway known to old colonists as ‘ Dunn’s-road,’ which skirts round the deep hush at Inizaine, an operation on our part which was watched with the liveliest interest by the Zulus; but on our departure each evening for the fort the enemy usually came outrof the hush where they lay hidden during the day and pulled up any marks left hy us, A trap was eventually set for them, and at the end of one ot the poles a torpedo was placed, it being so arranged that the pulling of the pole would set it off. All turned om as expected ; the Zulus, with their usual coolness, when the working parly had retired went and pulled the pole up, and with-it a few of them disappeared skyward. Since then the foe will not attempt to touch a stick or stone left behind hy any working party or put up the mark distances arpijrid the fort. Their fingers were hurt, and they now give a wide berth to all operations where the redcoats have been employed.”
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Kumara Times, Issue 865, 9 July 1879, Page 3
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