TROOPS ISOLATED.
A STORM. STREAM RISES SUDDENLY. FOUR MEN DROWNED. By Telefraph.-Pi-ess Association.— Oopyriffct. (Received March 30, 9 a.m.) DURBAN, 29th March. Six hundred men of the Wiltshire Regiment, who were accompanied by Lord Methuen, Commandeivkn-Chief of the forces in South Africa, left Pietermaritzburg, Natal, for the purpose of paying a surprise visit to a mihtia camp. A storm caused a spruit they liad to cross to rise suddenly, with the result that 150 men were isolated on an islamL around which the torrent raged. Four were drowned.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 74, 30 March 1910, Page 7
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