DREADFUL ATROCITIES AT TRANSVAAL.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 185, 17 January 1877, Page 4

DREADFUL ATROCITIES AT TRANSVAAL.

Tino enquiry into the charges of shooti ig women ami children made against Captain Van fcichlicknnum and the body < f volunteers, organised hy him to tight the Kaffirs on behalf of the cowardly boevs, has proved that the accusations wore well lounded. it is stated tnat it has been ascertained on incontestable evidence that Van Sehliekmann ordered two women and one child, after they had been released by a council of war, to be murdered in cold blood. This gallant captain told the men that if they did not kill the women and children, he would himself go into the native huts and cut their throats. One British subject, it is sail!, del.bera.tely shot down, and another blew her brains out as she lay on the i: round. indeed, most ol the perpetrators complained ot are British subjects; and people are asking why tier 2>X:ij jstvh Iliyla Commissioner does not interfere to slop such atrocities. It is. si* iar satisfactory to huou taut the a lull- cities are endeavouring to prevent the enlistment ut Biitmu subjects, an agent of the Transvaal Be public having oecn ariestud at Kunbciiy, under the Foreign Enlistment Act, fur inducing residents to take part in the war.

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