ZULU TRIBES WAR OVER SUCCESSION.
FIERCE BATTLE FOUGHT AROUND NATIVE KRAAL. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 6, 11 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, August 5. The arrest of the pretender to the regency of a minor Zulu tribe and 200 of his followers on charges of public violence terminated an alarmist weekend in northern Natal. On Saturday night, the uncle of the pretender, Giba, was found assassinated. Giba and 700 followers attacked the kraal of the. Regent, who waited till dawn on Sunday and then routed Giba and chased him for twelve miles. | A fiery cross blazed from hill top to hill top, and women and children took refuge in the mountains. Europeans were not disturbed. Aeroplanes enabled a mobile squadron to master the situation. Thirteen bodies have been found.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1931, Page 1
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