THE MATABELE RISING.
SUPPRESSION OF THE REVOLT. BULUWAYO SAFE. STATEMENT BY MR, CHAMBERLAIN. BRITISH TROOPS FOR THE CAPE. THE REPORT PREMATURE. TWO HUNDRED WHITES KILLED. Press Association.- Electric Telegraph,-Copyright. London, April 1 MR.CnAMßEßLAiNstatesthat he expects the forces from Mafoking and Buluwayo will be sufficient to crush the Matabele rising. Sir H. Robinson has been authorised to raise an additional 500 men. Mr. Chamberlain further states that the report that 5000 troops were to be despatched to the Cape was premature. Capetown, April 4, The safety of Bulumayo is assured. It is defended by 900 men. Gambol, one of the loading chiefs, remains loyal All the districts threatened by the natives have now been relieved except Belengave and Owanda, Captain Spreckley is in command of the Buluwayo field force. The rinderpest is paralysing transport operations in Rhodesia. Capetown, April 6. Settlers in Bechuanaland are flocking to Mafeking, and appeal to the authorities here for help, as they fear a rising. Four hundred and fifty British residents in the Rand have volunteered for sorvico in Rhodesia. It is estimated that the number of whites killed is 200.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10099, 7 April 1896, Page 5
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