A KRAAL ATTACKED
PRETENDER ROUTED WHOLESALE ARRESTS (United PreHß Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) CAPETOWN, sth August. The arrest of the pretender to the regency of a minor Zulu tribe and two hundred followers on a charge of public violence terminated an alarmist weekend in Northern Natal. On Saturday night the uncle of Giba, the pretender, was found assassinated. Giba and 700 followers attacked the kraal of tlie Regent, who waited till dawn on Sunday and routed Giba and chased him twelve miles. A fiery cross blazed from hill top to hill top. Women nnil children took refuge in the mountains. Europeans were not disturbed. Aeroplanes enabled a mobile squadron to master the situation. Thirteen bodies were found.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 August 1931, Page 7
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116A KRAAL ATTACKED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 August 1931, Page 7
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