DRASTIC PUNISHMENT FOR BOER TREACHERY.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 127, 30 May 1900, Page 5

DRASTIC PUNISHMENT FOR BOER TREACHERY.

AN ABUSER OF THE WHITE FLAG EXECUTED. SIMILAR FATE OF~ANOTHER BOER FIEND. LONDON, 29th May. Details of the engagement at Boshof last month, in which Sergeant Patrick Campbell (husband of the well-known actress of that name) met his death, show that Campbell was killed while advancing to receive the surrender of a party of Boers. Lord Chesham, who was in command of the Imperial Yeomanry, to which the sergeant belonged, threatened to shoot every Boer unless the abuser of the Avhite flag was surrendered. The demand for the man's surrender was complied with, and the murderer was subsequently shot. The Boer who shot Trooper Smythe »at Donkerpoort was captured by British troops in the Free State. He was court-martialled at Clocolan and shot. [According to a recent cablegram Trooper Smythe, who belonged to Cape Colony, was intercepted by the Boers at Donkerpoort, the first railway station north of the Orange river, and after being disarmed was told to go. As he was attempting to do so, he was fired at by several of his captors, and received wounds on the head, shoulder, and leg. Smythe dropped and feigned to be dead, when the enemy, after kicking his prostrate body, left him. Ultimately Smythe was rescued, and taken to friendly quarters.]