THE SIXTH CONTINGENT.
A SENSATIONAL STORY EX-
PLAINED.
(By Telegraph.— Own Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, this day
Regarding the report that a hundred men of the Sixth New Zealand Contingent were captured and. stripped by the Boers in South Africa, I we interviewed Colonel Banks and other officers who have returned here. They state that the report ori--8»a-ted in an Adelaide paper, but Is »revival of an old rumour. The acwal number captured and stripped *as only ten. The affair happened B°me months ago. Later information from one of the ™uc and file goes to show that the mS* cora Prise<I twenty-eight men, *™ took place at the fight at Onveran cW (meaning "the unexpected"). ,UDe, Prominent feature of the re«tr»pers by the Monowai is AiJ°}.3 a PPearance and excellent of the men of all ranks, tin? Welcome hy the band was pracshW,afailure, the notice being too ' n to enable members to leave their cm Ploynient. The demonstration by the irowd 2? enthusiasm, but -Z2e physical adffi? Cc of the men excited much S ratlon- The uniforms looked as S WCre just out of storethe i * °f the men sbowed marks of arv il °n lle 3rd and 4th of Janu" Cant«l i° mer bein& the date of *gre of the 28 New Zealanders. Contih the aembers of the First BWuP 11* who returned is Lieut. Sfern° f AUC^andhim t«d lr?°Pers a^ anxious to reS\ So^ Africa if possible. offeroriM°. fficers of the Sixth have Peric? ! lr services.for a further w«l reCn Pr°bably the maJority
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 115, 16 May 1902, Page 5
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