MORENGA.
REPORTED TO BE KILLED. Received September 23/9.30 a.m. LONDON, September 22. Reuter reports a fight at Witpan, in the Kalahari district, between the Hottentot chief Morenga and Major Elliott's command. It is reported that Morenga, his son, and also an uncle, were killed. The British casualties numbered two. OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED. Received September 23, 11 p.m. LONDON, September 23. Morenga's death is officially confirmed. (Morenga, who had caused the German* in Suuth-west Africa much trouble, crossed into Cape Colony, where he was seized and interned by the Government. He was released at the end of the hostilities on condition that he resided in Bechuanaland. He was kept under police surveillance, but escaped).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8542, 24 September 1907, Page 5
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112MORENGA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8542, 24 September 1907, Page 5
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