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J AN IMPI SURROUNDED. FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTYSEVEN REBELS KILLED. ONLY A FEW ESCAPE. NO WHITE CASUALTIES. Received July 9, 9.52 p.m. PIETERMARITZBURG, July 9. Colonels Mackenzie, Louchara and Wools-Sampson, with a force of two thousand men, including native levies, completely surrounded an imp? at UmveHi Gorge, killing 547. A few of the rebels escaped. There were no white casualties. UNREST AMONGST NATIVES INCREASING. Received July 9, 9.35 p.m. JOHANNESBURG, July 9. ' The unrest amongst £the natives in South Africa is increasing. Five hnudred assegais and knobkerries have been seized in the Rand mine uompounds. . Tbe Katfjir "boys" implore their wives to hurry to the coast. GENERAL BOTHA ON THE SITUATION. : Received July 9, 11.30 p.m. CAPETOWN, July 9. General. Botha, speaking aE Heidleburg, insisted that the British Government must leave the whites to settle the South African native problem. ,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8178, 10 July 1906, Page 5
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