DESPERATE BOERS.
ENGLISH OFFICERS SHOT. AFRIKANDER SYMPATHY. Beceived February 25,12.-17 p.m, London, February 24. A hundred of the Volunteer Composite Begiment surrounded four Boers in a farmhouse at Vryheid. Colonel Evans approached the door and demanded their surrender. The Boers fired, killing him and Uajor Blunt, and wounding a third. Three of the Boers were captured and the fourth escaped. An Afrikander meeting at Graaf Keiuet, including the Hon. Maasdorp, and many Bond members, protested against the slanders on the army, and voted confidence in Ur Chamberlain and Lords Milner and Kitchener.
Similar meetings were held in Middle' burg and Aliwal North.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12070, 25 February 1902, Page 3
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102DESPERATE BOERS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12070, 25 February 1902, Page 3
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