BOER PRISONERS IN INDIA.

Evening Star, Issue 11608, 19 June 1902, Page 8

BOER PRISONERS IN INDIA.

Last March the Boer prisoners at Trichinopoly (Madras) who gave an undertaking not to attempt to escape were removed to the Nilgiri Hills for the summer, leaving behind some 700 irreconcilables. The latter have been giving considerable trouble, and the ‘Madras Mail’ reports that one of the men on April 3 was taken in custody. He was, however, surrounded Ijy a number of his comrades, who prevented the police from apprehendipg him. A guard of the Lincoln Regiment carrying fixed bayonets appeared, and the offender was arrested. Thereupon the excitement increased; Boer national airs were wildly sung, and opprobrious epithets were used to the sentries and the police. The demeanor of the throng became so threatening that one of the European sentries had to give warning that he must shoot. A dozen prisoners made a rush at the camp gate, and one of them threw a large stone at the sentry, who thereupon fired. His assailant fell wounded, and died from his injuries the following day. He was named Botha, and is said to have been related to the Boer general A native sentry also fired twice into the crowd, wounding three ocher prisoners, one of whom died from his injuries a day or two later.