Conflict With Hottentots.
SETTLERS MURDERED
An official report from Windhoek, on the 17th, states the garrison consists of 250 partly mounted troops, with two machine guns.
Five bodies of Herero natives are approaching. Attempts to relieve Okohandja proved unsuccessful and resulted in a heavy loss. A reconnoitring party had a successful engagement on a farm at Hoffnung, on the 15th. Lieutenant Boysen and seven men were killed while five settlers and their families were murdered.
Later advices from Swokopnund state that Lieutenant Buelow, with 120 men, fought through and joined the Okohandja garrison. German newspapers attribute the rising to the colonists giving credit to the natives and then seizing their cattle and land for debt.
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Manawatu Herald, 28 January 1904, Page 3
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115Conflict With Hottentots. Manawatu Herald, 28 January 1904, Page 3
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