47 Boers Captured.
Sentencing Disloyalists.
Eeceived November 25, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, November 24. Seven Boers, including Field-Cornet S. Botha, were captured at Amsterdam, Transvaal. Forty more of Ackerman's commando have been captured. Amongst those sentenced to banishment are 'twelve field-cornets. H. Werner, one of the surrenderors, was executed at Johannesburg for recommending surrenderors to rejoin the commandos. ■ Meyer, another surrenderor, for a somewhat similar offence, was sentenced to penal servitude for life.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10502, 25 November 1901, Page 2
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7247 Boers Captured. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10502, 25 November 1901, Page 2
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