FIGHT AGAINST HOTTENTOTS.
THE DEATH OF MORENGA. Received September 24, 10.8 p.m. CAPETOWN, September 24. Later particulars in, connection with the fight in which the Hottentot Chief Morenga was killed show that Major Elliott's troops, numbering 60, pursued Morenga, who was accompanied by 10 Hottentots, along a waterless track, for 48 hours. Morenga posted himself on a kopje, and opened fire at 1,000 yards. He fought fiercely for two hours. Inspector Manders and twelve troopers rushed the position under cover of the main body's fire. Corporal Henwood was killed at a distance of 10 yards, but the man who shot him was immediately killed by a trooper. Morenga was found riddled with bullets.
A German officer accompanying Major Elliott eulogised the operations.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8543, 25 September 1907, Page 5
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122FIGHT AGAINST HOTTENTOTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8543, 25 September 1907, Page 5
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