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BY ELECTAIC TELEGRAPH—COPYBIGHT SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS. MORE SURRENDERS. PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Received 27, 9.54 p.m. London, Juce 27. C <mmandants Fouws' ind L tegan's commandc s, numberirg 465, -urrendered at Kenharfc, and 33 other. Boers at Kimberley. Wellington, June 27. The Governor is advised that the following members of the Eigth Contfngent are dangerously ill:—Rob-rt Gilpin, from dyssntry, at Elandsfontein.; Patrick Lee, from injuiie-, at Potchtfstroom. DKJPATvH FROM COLONEL PORTER Wellington, June 27. | Sir Joseph' Ward hss received a communication from Colohel Porter, 1 dated Durban, 14 h May, in which that officer says an injustice baa been done to the Seventh Regiment, New Zealand Mounted Rifl b, through the censors having suppressed an important cible message of his to the Premier dated 3rd March. This me.sige said: "I am gratified to report a most dashing capture by the New Zeilanders to-day of De Wet's guns—ore 15paunder, two pom-pomp, and a large amount of ammunition, waggons, rifl s •tc.; a most important cap'ure. Thess are said to b<) the last of the enemy's
guns. De Wet csc>ped. From close quuters the Seventh charged the guns, and gallantly took them after hand to hand fighting." Co'onel Porfer adds that in hid Bo'h'sherg despitch, ha was reported to have siid <! not one skulker reported." This was an error in traLsnaission. What he wrote weß " Kot a tingle rtf roach." He »1 o says that he legiets tba f many cf h'scaUss were mutilated by the centors.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 28 June 1902, Page 3
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247CABLE NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 28 June 1902, Page 3
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