South Africa.
REBEL GENERAL CAPTURED. I DE WET SUPS AWAY AGAIN. Pretoria, November 13. General Muller, who was defeated at Pronkliorsprit on November 7, lias been captured wounded. • Official.—General Botha, by a forced niglit march to Marguard, Ea9t Winburg, surprised Do Wet, and captured two laagers, taking 200 prisoners. Lukin and Brcts, commanding the other commandos, failed to reach the allotted uoints in time, otherwise thero would have been a good chance of surrounding i and capturing De Wet and his two thousand followers.
PITILESS MASSACRES OF NATIVES, Received 15, 3.30 p.m. Paris, November 14.
r An officer of the expedition to Angola cabled on October 30th, states that the Germans forcibly enlist carriers, and pitilessly massacre refugees. Eleven native villagers at Japowa, men, women, and children, were disembowelled. During the fighting the Germans also incinerated a number of natives whom they had imprisoned in a hut.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 147, 16 November 1914, Page 5
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147South Africa. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 147, 16 November 1914, Page 5
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