SOUTH AFRICA.
I —— ♦ RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS. PEB PEEBB ASSOCIATION. Received 24, 10 2) p m Cape Town, March 24. The release of political p; isoners baa begun and all will ba released this wee'i. j rOUTHfX'L RECRUITS. LABOUR QUESTION. Received 24, 10 40 p.m. London, March 24. Recruits arriving in South Africa are nicknamed " Brodricks" by the reasoned troops, owing to their youthfulness.
Lord Stanley, Financial Secretary to the War Office, questioced with i egard to the age of the recruits, replied there was no limit of age recruits being sent to South Africa es being a suitable training ground. Lord Lansdowne when receiving tke Scottish Missionary Societies deputation said the experiment, of draf'ing labour from Central Africa to Witwate.srand was limited to a thousand, the agreement being only for ont' year. The (xperim'ent would be closely watched, and if detrimental would not fce ex'ended.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 72, 25 March 1903, Page 3
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146SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 72, 25 March 1903, Page 3
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