THE FINGOE SLAUGHTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6709, 30 May 1900, Page 3

THE FINGOE SLAUGHTER.

Fuller particulars of the incident referred to yesterday are as follows :—On Friday occurred one of the most dramatic incidents of the war. Twenty-five Fingoes, under the leadership of two Baralong natives, who undertook to show where a good haul of cattle could be made, left the town intending to capture them. One of the Baralongs led them into a trap, and they were surrounded and attacked by a patrol of Boers. So well did the Fingoes fight that the Boers were compelled to draw off and await reinforcements. Although outnumbered the natives and Fingoes fell back upon Pan. The Boers brought another 100 men with a Mannlicher Maxim, and a Maxim and N.-rden-feldt, and surrounded Pan, opening a murderous fire. The leader of the natives, Undebizili, rallied the me;n, and it was a repetition of Wilson's stand upon Shangani. From the rising to the sinking of the sun, the Fingoes, armed with absolete rifles, fought with grim desperation and made a determined stand against the merciless foe. Both the machine guns and Mausers poured a perfect sheet of steel in their midst, whilst the Nordenfeldt shells cracked round like fireworks. They fought till the ammunition was finished, when the Boers Killed them to a man. One of the wounded escaped. The natives killed sis Boers and wounded a great number.