DE WET'S DIFFICULTIES.
BURGHERS DESERTING HIS STANDARD.
[N.Z. Press Associj
LONDON, February 23
Four hundred burghers have deserted De Wet. They report that Lord Kitchener's proclamations of December SO with reference to surrendering are now reaching the commandos. Froneman, with 1000 men. went north, while Do Wet moved towards Prieska, on the Orange River, to await Hertzog, who is bringing him 1000 remount?. A British officer who wan captured atZnnd Drift, on the Orange Eiver, and who was subsequently released at Iloutkraal, declares that De Wet treated his prisoners on the march with the utmost callousness, and released them-only when they dropped from exhaustion. Ho saw De Wet personally sjambook a British ' officer lor expostulating against his cruelty.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 47, 25 February 1901, Page 5
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