A TRAITOR'S DOOM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 64, 16 March 1900, Page 2

A TRAITOR'S DOOM.

The Boer spies are übiquitous, and it is much to be feared that in spite of all precautions the volunteer corps which have been sent out from Home are not wholly free from suspicion. At Madder River they seem to catch on an average one Boer spy a day, and a rumour has reached London to the effect that Lord Methuen has been obliged to disband Rimington Scouts owing to the, fact that there are so many traitors in that otherwise excellent corps. A private of the Grenadiers, wrlt- ; ing from the Modder encampment, I says in a letter to hand last mail: "We | caught a spy the other day. We j thought he waa Joyal to us, but we [ watched him one night, an<J saw a j light in his house, and what is more, we saw him use a telephone wvhich waa found to communicate with the Boers about three miles away. We took him ! prisoner, and on searching found the wires in a wall. We traced the wire round a pigstye, but It broke as we "were following it across the river, the wire being at lih.o bottom. Our camp

hats been full of spies, but I think we have caught the chief of them at last. The same man was caught before, signalling with a. lamp, but he then said he was looking for his cattle, and we gave him the benefit of the doubt. Now he has come to the end of his career, and I am sure 1 should not like to have his death."