SHOOTING THE WOUNDED.
Press Association. Electric Telegraph, Copyright.
London, July 22.
The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (Mr Bennett Burleigh) says that further inquiry confirms previous statements that acts of butchery were committed after tbo fight at VlakfOntein. Sworn testimony with regard to the matter has boon sent to General De la Key.
The same correspondent says that General Louis Botha recently expressed to Lord Kitchener his regret at demoralisation and degeneracy in the Boer ranks and the impossibility o f repressing improper practices.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 169, 24 July 1901, Page 2
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