NATAL NATIVE RISING

Evening Star, Volume 12869, Issue 12869, 19 July 1906, Page 6

NATAL NATIVE RISING

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

REDUCING THE BRITISH FORCE,

CHARGES OF INHUMANITY DIS-

PROVED.

PIETERMARITZBURG, July 18. (3oni3idering the rebellion ended, Colonel Mackenzie is largely reducing tho British forces in the field

'The charges of inhumanity made against tho colonial troops by the Johannesburg * Sunday Times' were debated in the Natal Assembly. Mr Watt (Minister of Justin) denied that any act of barbarism had been committed. The military methods employed had been severe, but not inhuman. Some of tho native levies might have been killed and some wounded without the knowledge of the European officers in the battle at Mome and elsewhere, but not to the same extent as formerly. The number of prisoners captured disproved the charge that no quarter had been given. THREE CHIEFS FOUND GUILTY. PIETERMARTTZBURG, Jury 18. (Received July 19, at 10.31 a.m.) Tho Zulu chiefs Measini, NdbJobuk, and Atimuni were convicted of treason by the court-martial Atimuni was ako found guilty of the murder af a European.