BECHUANALAND
. * KING KIIAMA’S WARRIORS. REVERSION TO PAST CUSTOMS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, April 24. A sensational allegation- of arson, torture, ami slavery is being investigated by a Royal Commission under Sir Herbert Soloky in Becbnanalaml. It is alleged that a number of warriors of King Kharna, the most powerful native chief in South Africa, raided a tribe who have been settled for twenty years on a-strip of land near the Limpopo River. Ibo tribe bad l been ordered- to leave, but refused. King Khania’s warriors at I ached' the tribe, captured a large, number, and- looted and burned villages. The women were outragedl and some of lire men were tortured. This story is told: by refugees who entered the' Transvaal, but it is not suggested that King Khama himself, who is a Christian chief, authorised the rani— A, and N-Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17953, 26 April 1922, Page 4
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142BECHUANALAND Evening Star, Issue 17953, 26 April 1922, Page 4
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