SOUTH AFRICA.
THE SEVENTH CONTINGENT.
PRAISE NOT BESTOWED.
Press Association. Electric Telegraph.
Copyright,
Wellington, June 27.
Sir Joseph Ward has received a communication from Colonel Porter, dated Durban, 14th May, in which that officer says that an injustice has been done to the Seventh Regiment of New Zealand M.R. through the censors having suppressed an important cablt message of his to the Premier, dated the 3rd of March. This message said : —Gratified to report a most dashing capture by the Seventh New Zealand Rifles today of De Wet's guns—one. 15 pounder, two pom poms, a large amount of ammunition, wagons, rifles, etc. It is a most important capture. These are said to be the last of the enemy's guns. De Wet escaped from close quarters. The Seventh charged the guns gallantly and took them after hand to hand iighting.
Colonel Porter adds that in his Bothasberg despUch he was reported to have said "not one skulker was reported." This was an error in transmission. What he wrote was "not a single reproach." He also says that he regrets many of his cables were mutilated by the censors.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 149, 28 June 1902, Page 4
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