MORE TREACHERY.
A PATROL INCIDENT
MURDER OF THE WOUNDED.
EXEMPLAEY PUNISHMENT.
PRETORIA, August 19
Five British,'while patrolling near Krugersdorp, on Wednesday, were attacked from a farm by a Boer who had taken the oath. One was wounded and" captured. His brains were beaten out, and his body riddled with bullets. The farmhouse was' afterwards burnt, and two arrests made. ■...,:■■ ;LONDON, August 20. ; The "Daily News" states that Captain Reynolds and Travers, with a party of the sth Dragoons, surprised 100 Boers laagered on an oath-breaker's farm at Kolzee's Drift. JThey were unchallenged till within 70 yards of the laager, when Capltain Reynolds shot two challengers. The Dragoons poured in a hot .fire, causing great execution. ' One Dragoon is missing, and Captain Reynolds i 3 slightly wounded.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 198, 21 August 1900, Page 5
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