THE LATEST.
THE FIGHT AT SUNNYSIDE.
INCRIMINATING DOCUMENTS FOUND.
TBEATMENT OF THE PRISONERS. SHOULD THEY BE PUNISHED AS REBELS ? FIRST BLOW STRUCKBY COLONIALS SINCE MAGERSFONTEIN. ]' ' WITHDRAWAL FROM DOUGLAS. A GREAT PROCESSION OF RESIDENTS. Capetown, December 4. The Boors had six killed and twelve wounded at Smmyside. A number of incriminating documents were found m the laagar captured from them. London, January &. The Modder River correspondent of the Times says the prisoners taken at Sunnyside ought to be punished as rebels, and an example made of them. Military offioials are delighted that the colonials struck the first' blow since Magersfontein. Capetown, January 4. Boers refuse to reoognise as prisoners of war any former residents of the Transvaal, but will treat them as convicts. Lieut.-Col. Piloher, having accomplished his objeot, withdrew from JDongias, escorting a great procession of local residents. Many of the Colonial troops carried children.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 5 January 1900, Page 3
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