A BOER CUT-THROAT.
Amongst the large* batch of invalids and wounded from South Africa by the Umbria at Southamp- i ton Y/ere a number of men who had served with the Ladysmith and Kimberley relief forces. They had all terrible tales to tell of the sanguinary work in the trenches, but tbe most ghastly 'reading is the brief -story of Lance-corporal Ramsay, of the Black Watch, who was wounded in eight places at Magersfontein. He states that' duiing the battte a Boer captured a British bugler, whom he jsudpavoured to drag within the Boer lines. The bugler struggled to get free, whereupon the Boer drew a knife from his pocket and cut ' the boy's tht'oafc. Ramsay promptly clubbed his rifle, and struck the Boer dead. The corporal's story was cdrroborI ated by saveral eye-witnesses.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 145, 15 May 1900, Page 3
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134A BOER CUT-THROAT. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 145, 15 May 1900, Page 3
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