ZULU CHIEF
- -o* — : * PRETENDER TO REGENCY ROUTED WEEK-END BATTLE IN NATAL Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, August 5. (Received August G, at 10 a.m.) The arrest of tho Pretender to tho Regency of a minor Zulu tribe and 200 of his followers on a charge of public violence terminated an alarmist week-end in Northern Natal. On Saturday night the uncle of tho Pretender (Giba) was found assassinated. Giba and 700 followers attacked the kraal of tho Regent, who waited till dawn on Sunday, and routed Giba and chased him for twelve miles. Women and children took refuge in the mountains. Europeans wore undisturbed. Aeroplanes enabled a mobile squadron to master the situation. Thirteen bodies were found.
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Evening Star, Issue 20864, 6 August 1931, Page 9
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117ZULU CHIEF Evening Star, Issue 20864, 6 August 1931, Page 9
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