THE OCCUPATION OF PRETORIA.
• I INTERESTING INCIDENTS. THK BRITISH PRISONERB. Lohdoit, June 8. When Lord Roberts was entering Pretoria three of the enemy's trains were on the point of leaving. Two were captured. The third, •aid to have been laden with prisoners, hones, and gold, escaped. The civilians at Pretoria had decided some days ago to surrender the town, and its abandonment had actually begun. The return of General Botha. however, prevented this course being jolly earned out. On the night before Lord Rober ts'd «ntry to Pretoria a number of British prisoners were direoted to entrain, but refused, and disarmed their guards and captured the comtnandant. Some further particulars of the doings of those British prisoners who overcame their guards m Pretoria on the night before the arrival of Lord Sobextt'fr troops are to hand. It seems that it was the commandant of the city that they captured. H» was subsequently released on parole, on giving his promise that he would not renew the order for their entrapment or put m force the (Older already issued. The remainder of the party of prisoners afterwards witnessed the entry of the Britieh troops into the city. ■ Meanwhile' they had oaptured two prominent commandants.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 135, 11 June 1900, Page 3
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