ALLEGED BOER ATROCITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6898, 9 April 1883, Page 5

ALLEGED BOER ATROCITIES.

The following appears in the Kioiberley Daily Independent of Jan. 10: "Mr Rutherford, Secretary to the British Beai* dent, is here to enquire into the massacre of Jan Massibi's people, copies of affidavits of which I sent you a month ago. Proofs of a few more atrooities committed by the Bosrs hare been placed before him, and, as it may ! possibly interest your readers to learn how friendly natives and Englishmen are mal« treated and murdered by these brigands without punishment, I send you a short summary of these cases. In February two of Montsioa's men, named Modisa and JOilora, were surprised by the Boors, and surrendered to them. They were taken to the laagor and questioned, and one of them, Dilors, was then and there shot, ib.e other, by a refinement of cruolty, was kept to be murdered the next day, but succeeded in making his escape. On Sept. 10 some women were out collecting wood, and were surprised by the Boers, who opened fire on them and rode after them. One, who was separated from the others, was overtaken, and a Boer dismounted and shofe her dead. She had three bullets in her. This womun's name was Modutu. On Sept. SO two of Montsioa's men, named Molisa* houreque and Ganabhomo, returning from Taungs, were captured by the Boers and taken to the laager f where thev were questioned as to the whereabouts of Betheli, who was believed to bo on the road with ammunition, and, after being kept three days, were taken back to where they were caught, and murdered. Between Sept. 10 and Oct. 17, six of Montsioa's people coming into the station were caught and murdered in cold blood by the Boers, after being questioned, H'stima, Gasi, Jani, Gougalibve, Pots, and one other. Early in fieptembor two Englishmen, one J. 0. M'Gilleverai, and another, name unknown, were on their way to Kanye. The freebooters, hearing of two Englishmen pasting, concluded that they were on the road to aiisist Montaioa. They therefore sent oat a patrol and found these men within the Transvaal; they seized them and brought them to the laager, whe.-e thoy were put in irons. The gaoler was a German, called Fritz. In this laager they wera kept ironed and bound until about Sept. 8, when they escaped. By ■ the - bye, in the list of murders and atrooities I sent you I omitted to mention the murder of one siok and seven old men during the attack on this station, all unable to walk and all unarmed. Also the murder cf an old man in the Velda. He was over ninety years old, and was walking along unarmed, of course, and supported by his women-folk, when the Boers rode up and murdered him—not during a fight, mind, but in cold blood. Further, that (an atrocity unheard of in Beohuana warfare previously) they murdered all the cattle herds when they stole the cattle. All or most of the herds were unarmed. Mr Kutherford has seen the persons who made the affidavits re the massacre of Jan Massibi's people, and has obtained farther valuable information from them."

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