FIGHTING LIKE WILD CATS AND DISREGARDING THE RULES OF WARFARE.
LORD ROBERTS PROVIDES A FREE TRIP. KITCHENER EFFECTS, A LITTLE SURPRISE. ANXIOUS TO RETURN TO GOLDGETTING. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) London, Oct. 28. Lieut. -General Hunter's force has been engaged in continuous skirmishing in the Bothaville and Bloemhof districts. The enemy, who are dressed in khaki, threaten to shoot all prisoners in revenge for their burned farm houses. Oath-breakers are especially desperate and those who refuse to fight are ill-treated and starved. The inhabitants of Phillipolis connived at the enemy's recent raid into the town and Lord Roberts has sent all those implicated out of the country. A force under Lord Kitchener, by making a night march, surprised and captured a Boer Laager at Krugerspoort, wounding several and capturing four. Troopers Pile and Kerr (Fourth New Zealanders) were slightly wounded near Zeerust. Three thousand Rand refugees, at Capo* town, have petitioned the Queen for permission to return to Johannesburg.
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Southland Times, Issue 14785, 31 October 1900, Page 2
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