SURPRISED.
WILTSHIRES IN THE WET
A SURPRISE PARTY THAT GOT
CAUGHT
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT
[per press association.] (Received March 30, 9.15 a.m.) Capetown, March 29. Six hundred men of the Wiltshire Regiment, accompanied 13y Lord Methuen, Military Commander-in-Ghief for South Africa, left for Pietermaritzburg to surprise a militia camp. A storm caused a watercourse to •rise suddenly, and 150 of their number were isolated on an island caused by the torrent. Three lives were lost.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1145, 30 March 1910, Page 2
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