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Received 7, 9.5 a.m. Calcutta, May 6. [ The Ceylon Times states that a healthy site has been selected on Ceylon by the Imperial authorities as a temporary place of imprisonment for Boer prisoners, London, May 6. Trooper Smythe was recently intercepted and disarmed by the Boers at Donkerspoort and then told to go. As he attempted to do so the enemy fired and shot him in the head, shoulder, and leg. He immediately dropped and faigned to be dead, when the enemy, after kicking the prostrate body, left him. Be was ultimately rescued and taken to Mafeking. Adelaide, May 7. Lieut. Dowling, who was entrapped and taken prisoner at Slingersfontein, and released at the capture of Bloemfontein, has returned invalided and almost blind through the effects of a wound, but hopes to recover his sight.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 95, 8 May 1900, Page 3
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