THE LAST OF MORENGA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8933, 25 September 1907, Page 2

THE LAST OF MORENGA.

A Game Finish. Per Press Association —Copyright. Capetown, September 24. Col. Elliott’s troop, numbering 60, putslied Morenga. who was accompanied by 10 Hottentots on a waterless track for 48 hours. Morenga then posted himself on a kopje and opening fire at 1000 yards fought fiercely for two hours. Inspector Manders and twelve troopers rushed the position uhdef cover of fire from tile ifiihn body. Corporal Henwood was killed from a distance of 10 yards and the man who shot him was immediately killed by a trooper. Morenga was found riddled with bullets.

A German officer accompanying Col. Elliott eulogised the operation, and the Governor of German South-west Africa warmly thanked Sir W.Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of Cape Colony. [Morenga has proved very troublesome to the Germans, and when nearly cornered escaped into Cape Colony.] Bniitix: September 24 The German newspapers, with the exception of the Vossiche Zeituug which declares that Capo Colony honourably fulfilled its promise to follow up’Marcnga to the best of its ability—complain of the tardiness of British action.