The Feilding Star. OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTIES GAZETTE Published Daily. TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1902 A BOER OUTRAGE.
A much to be regretted incident is reported in our cablegrams to-day. We are informed that sixty persons, including several lawyers, a doctor, and a chemist, have been arrested in Pretoria since the declaration of peace, on suspicion of being concerned in a plot to explode the Government Buildings, the residence of the Commander-in-Chief, Viscount Kitchener, and to spike the guns of the arsenal. This is of tbe same class of intended outrage which led to the execution of Lieut. Hans Cordua in August last year. Although it is more than probable that the principal details of the plot had been aftanged before peace had been proclaimed, yet the conspirators will nevertheless deserve to be severely punished when proved guilty, although the death penalty is not likely to be inflicted as in the case of the misguided Cordua. The timely discovery of the plot has prevented a catastrophe which, had it been accomplished, would have done much to interfere with the good feeling which is so rapidly developing between the Boers and the British.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1459, 10 June 1902, Page 2
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190The Feilding Star. OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTIES GAZETTE Published Daily. TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1902 A BOER OUTRAGE. Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1459, 10 June 1902, Page 2
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