THE BOER WAR
MURDER OP TROOPERS AND SURRENDEREES. APPEARANCE OF RINDERPEST. (Received Sept. 21, London, September 21. Lord Kitchener has forwarded Commandant Prinsloo’s affidavits showing that on three occasions individual burghers deliberately murdered wounded troopers and unarmed surrenderors. In anticipation of a raid the Natal Carbineers and Umvote Mounted Rifles have also been summoned. The Durban volunteers have entrained northwards. Lyttelton’s Regulars are estimated at 1000. The Field-Cornets mutilated Lord Kitchener’s proclamation to prevent their men surrendering. The Rinderpest has appeared in a Government herd in the neighbourhood of Pretoria.
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Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1054, 23 September 1901, Page 2
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90THE BOER WAR Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1054, 23 September 1901, Page 2
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