MISCELLANEOUS.
PUNISHMENT FOR TREASON.
London, April 15. A Treason Court, sitting at Barkly West, sentenced." Pony" De Wet, a member of the Capo Assembly, to three years' imprisonment, and fined him £1000.
The Daily Mail states that Lord Kitchener has now 00,000 mounted men. Compulsory sales of stock in Capo Colony yielded 40,000 horses. A woman treacherously directed two Yeomanry to obtain water on an ambushed spot on the JagersEontein road, in the south-west of Orange River Colony. One of the men was killed and the other wounded. A farmhouse in the vicinity has since been burned. Four thousand three hundred Boers, representing twenty-five nationalities, arc interned in Ceylon. They are comfortably housed and well fed, and there is little sickness among them. The men arc contented, although there is a large irreconcilable element among them.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 87, 18 April 1901, Page 2
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136MISCELLANEOUS. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 87, 18 April 1901, Page 2
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