WHITE FLAG TREACHERY.
DRASTIC RETRIBUTION.
JUondon, May 29. Details of the engagement at Boshof last month, in which Sergeant Patrick Campbell (husband of the well-known actress of that name) met his death, show that Campbell was killed while advancing to receive the surrender of a party of Boers.
Lord Chesham, who was in command of the Imperial Yeomanry, to which the sergeant belonged, threatened to shoot every Boer unless the abuser of the white flag surrendered.
The demand was complied with, and the murderer was subsequently shot. . The Boer who shot Trooper Smythe at Donkerpoort was afterwards captured. He was court-martialled at Clocolan and shot.
Trqoper Shiyfche belonged to Cape Colony, and was intercepted by the Boers at Donkerpoort, the first railway station on the Free State main line north of the Orange river, and after being disarmed was then told to go. As he was attempting to do so he was fired at by several of his captors, and received wounds on the head, shoulder and leg. Smythe immediately dropped, and feigned to be dead, when the enemy, after kicking his prostrate body, left him. Ultimately Smythe was rescued, and taken to friendly quarters.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6709, 30 May 1900, Page 2
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195WHITE FLAG TREACHERY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6709, 30 May 1900, Page 2
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