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Show HOW ENGLISH HRE QUELLING BLACK REBELLION IN DHipST SOUTH AFRICA V; . ' ; . . : v - ,; " 'I : t - , - J? ft ! . r - " . H , ' . . . ... - -. .;, , ' i . , . ' ( . .' ' ' . . ..." - . J I BURNING A ZULU KRAAL IN NATAL. v Reports from South Africa almost daily tell of ' sharp-fights of the English soldiers with the rebellious re-bellious Zulus. Skirmishing parties of the Colonial troops are racing over the country surprising villages vil-lages from which the warriors are absent and burning the huts. . ' ' DURBAN, NATAL, JUNE 12. COL. MACKENZIE'S COLUMN YESTERDAY ATTACKED THE REBEL NATIVES WHO. HAD, SOUGHT SHELTER IN THE BUSH. THE LATTER ' CLIMBED TREES, WHENCE THEY HURLED ASSEGAIS ON THE TROOPS, BUT THE BULLETS DROPPED THEM OUT OF BRANCHES. OVER FORTY WERE THUS KILLED, AND ALTOGETHER 160 NATIVES .WERE . SLAIN. , DARKNESS ENDED THE OPERATIONS OF THE TROOPS, BUT THE ROUT OF THE REBELS IS PRACTICALLY COMPLETE. COM-PLETE. . |