Show DEWET REPORTED DEAD letter from a prominent boer states that boer general succumbed to a wound general deleto recent inactivity has produced the impression among military men that he be is either dead or incapacitated through illness or wounds according to a letter from pretoria a prominent boer recently wrote a friend there relating tha ter hardships suffered by tb the 0 boers io in the field especially from a lack of surgeons eur geons i dewet dowel for example wrote the boer suffered tl e 0 most terrible agony before he be died he was wounded in the shoulder by a splinter from a shell and the wound gangrened in conse quence of it being dressed with dirty I 1 rags five rive boer boers i captured at differ different eu t places recently said dewet was dead but gave a different version of hia his death against these reports is a statement of plot piet de do villiers the field cornet re bently taken prisoner in the northeastern part of the orange kiver river colony who said that on the morning of h a capture he took breakfast with general dewet |