CRUELTY TO ENGLISH PRISONERS.
(Received Deo. 23, 9.62 a.m.j \J ; Capetown, Deo. .22. • . After the battle of Storraberg the Enjj-'.v/V" lish prisoners were compelled to mardh fpr.-"3V A 48 hours without food or water. '•. --- -.■■&--' : }'.'~' : , At Burgheredorp the English residents ,"-•.; placed the wounded in a school. The Free .-. /'. ■ State •women deolared that the British : \ >' • wounded ought to be shot. They took '.' ;; their blankets and gave them to the Boer wounded. ■ ''•'•. .': A movement is afoot to reoroit'l6oo horsemen amongst the British farmers of Cape Colony to invade aod baress the Free Slate. ' ' ■ ' A COLONIAL HERO. (Received Deo. 23, 10.53 a.m.) ■ London, Deo. 2l Lieutenant-Commander Colequhon, of the Victorian Naval Brigade, who went to ■ ■: " - the.Cape as transport officer on the Medic, and af tea wards with the consent of the ' Victorian Government volunteered for service with the British Naval Brigade, is : lauded by the Cape newspaper files as. one ot the heroes of the Naval Brigade at ike battle of Grass Pan. -" . f. (Received Deo. 23, 11.35 a.m.) Si-DNBF, Deo. 23. fe Lieutenant-Commander Colquhou was r not at Grass Fan. Report refers to later '. '■.-. fighting. '-- THE WAR FUND. ' . , ■> The War Fund has reached . '--'
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8703, 23 December 1899, Page 2
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190CRUELTY TO ENGLISH PRISONERS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8703, 23 December 1899, Page 2
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