SOUTH AFRICA
(fifeotrio Telegraph— Copyright— United Press Association-) LONDON, July 20. J A Renter despatch states that all Cape troops will hereafter operate exclusively] within Cape territory, under colonial commanders, to expel raiders and suppress the rebellion, the troops co-operating with Imperial troops engaged beyond the frontier. Lord Kitchener has commuted 34 death sentences of Cape rebels to penal servitude for life in Bermudas. (Received July 22, 9.11 a.m.) "LONDON, July 21. The captured members of the Orange Free State Government belong to the most- fanatical section of Boer malcontents. Lord Roberts, in distributing prizes won at Bisley, said the South African war had shown the necessity for good shooting and the exhibition of individual intelligence, since soldiers were compelled to fight in very extended order. TIMARU, this day. Trooper D. McKay, of the Geraldine Mounted Rifles, and a member of the Fifth Contingent, has died at Temuka of pneumonia.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9204, 22 July 1901, Page 3
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