THE SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE.
An Honor from the King.
A Boer Leader Wounded.
Re-opanintf of Delagoa. Bay Railway.
Press Association-^ Telegraph— Copyright
Received December 19, 10.30 p.m.
LONDON, December 18.
The King personally conferred the Victoria, Cross 'on Lieutenant* ""A. C. Doxat, of the Imperial Yeomanry, son of E. T. Doxat, chairman of directors of Dalgety and Co., who won the distinction at Zeeruat in January last by rescuing an unhorsed comrade under a heavy fire. Private A. Woodward, of the Sixth New Zealand Contingent, was severely wounded' in the thigh at Drakfontein.
.with,. 30 followers, "invaded near Colesbur^ on the 16th/ and attempted to go west on thejiUSth. . Six blockhouses opened fire. , -" Kruitringer was wounded in the arm'jandibody. The Delagoa Bay railway has been re-opened for civil traffic at the rates prevailing prior to the war, also for the importation of natives for the mines. . A'"veterans^corjTs" 0? Yeomanry and colonials previously, at the front is being formed at Shbrtcliff for South Africa. One hundred have already enlisted. /~\ . /i "-"
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10523, 20 December 1901, Page 2
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