SKELETONS FOUND.
PATE OP DESERTERS FROM MINES. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BT EtMOTEIO TZLEGBAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received July 4th, 1 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, July 3. A police patrol found eight skeletons in the desert north of Orange river. Their mine tickets establish that they were natives who deserted tbe diamond mines in 1925. They mußt hlive walked for a hundred miles over the barren desert.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19971, 4 July 1930, Page 13
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