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DE WET STILL LOOSE BOERS CAPTURE A BISHOPS STEEDS AND LET HIM GO DEPARTURE OF IXOO COLONIALS FOR HOME TWO YEOMANRY OFFICKKS DISMISSED FOR THE LINDLEV AFFAIR London, Dee. 14. Received 14th, 10.54 p.m. De Wut is proceeding towards Dewetsdorp, General Knox closely pursuing him with a strong force of mounted men. Other columns ure converging on De Wet. Roerscaptuted tho Bishop of Zululand near Vryhoid. They took his carriage horses and allowed the Bishop to icturn to Utrecht. Eight hundred returning Austnilian.s and 1000 Canadians wore given an enthusiastic farewell at Capetown. The Mayor up- i plauded their gallantry and devotion and presented thorn with souvenirs. The Hon. St. John Brodrick has dismissed two officers implicated in tho Yeomanry disaster at Lindlf-y but exonerated Colonel Spragge.
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Southland Times, Issue 14814, 15 December 1900, Page 2
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