BOER VINDICTIVENESS.
SOME STRANGE STORIES. A trooper in Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry, writing from Frere to a relative, under date 29th November, says: — "All the troops have left Estcourt now, and are stationed here. The Boers smashed this store up to pieces, and what they could not eat, drink, or take away they destroyed. All the furniture, and even the children's toys, were smashed, and all because the owner was an old soldier in the 18th Hussars. We have heard a report that those who got passes or permits to remain in Johannesburg, and who have been connected with any volunteer oorps or any regiment, have been ordered out to dig their own graves, and have been shot in them." Miss Edith Sutton, writing from Maritzburg on 30th November to her father in Melbourne, says: — "I have just heard straight from the Intelligence Department (it has been censored for the Natal press, so as not to discourage men going up to the front) that. four of Thorneycroft's men were found shot dead in a Dutch house yesterday, and it looked as if they had been taken prisoners while out scouting and lined up and shot. Isn't it awful V We have not heard the names yet, and hope that it is not any of the boys we know. 11
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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1900, Page 7
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218BOER VINDICTIVENESS. Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1900, Page 7
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