South Africa.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3871, 9 May 1906, Page 4

South Africa.

HASTENING FEDERATION. "A TRAVESTY OF HISTORY.” Capetown, May 6 Public opinion in South Africa complains of tlie Home Radio* Is successively maligning the Cape, Natal and the Transvaal. The tradueers are thereby unintentionally bur. perceptibly strengthening the feeling ot brotherhood and hastening the federation of South Africa, t The Natal Mercury has that ex-President Meyo’-* rec speech is a traver-ty <>{ nisto',., ■- I signed to arouse racial hair« d. | ZULU FANATICISM, j THE WITCH DOCTOR AT WORK. London, May 7, » The Daily Mail's Pieterma'itzburg correspondent says the 20U Zulus partly armed with rifles and partly with assegais displayed extreme j bravery. 1 The rebels were prepared by a j witch-doctor before the fiiibt, Be--1 lieving they were invulnerable they j charged desperately susi «ini*.g h avy The result has uni rnnned the witch-doctor’s prestige. The Maxims demoralised the waverer-*. Bambaata monnted on a white horse, led the attack, The reb'ls cheeked the British column’s advance by firing the grass. The infantry spent eighteen hours marching and fighting b.for thoy regained Fort Yolfaud.