THE NATAL REVOLT.
BAMBAATA'S ATTACK.
A DESPERATE CHARGE. LED BY THE CHIEF HIMSELF.
United Prese Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 7. The "Daily Mail's" Pietermaritsburg correspondent Miys that the two hundred Zulus who cttacked Colonel Manscl wore partly armed with rifles and partly with «u?>cgais, and displayed extreme bnaverv. PIETERMARITZBURG, May 7. The rebels were prepared by a witch doctor before the fight. Believing they were invulnerable they charged desperately, sustaining heavy losses. The result has undermined the- witch doctors prestige. The Maxims demoralised the waverers. Tin- Chief B-arnba-ata, mounted on a white horse, led the attack. The rebels chocked the column's advance by setting fire to tho grate. The infantry were eighteen hours marching and fighting before they regained Fort Yolland.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12499, 9 May 1906, Page 7
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