CABLE NEWS.
THE
SHOOTING OF
WOUNDED.
Steyn's Escape.
United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph-—.Copyright. (Received July 18, 10 43 p m.) London, July 18. Mr Bennet Burleigh states that the killing of wounded at Vlakfontein is not well authenticated. The outrage was the work of one or two Boers.
The Standard's Pretoria correspondent says that Mr Steyn was asleep when h eitz was surprised. He escaped in his nightshirt, and jumped on a horse. Riflemen fired at him, and missed.
Lieutenant French, of the New Zealand Bushmen, has sailed for England. '
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9291, 19 July 1901, Page 3
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91CABLE NEWS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9291, 19 July 1901, Page 3
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