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Show Cortina to be Shot. A dispatch from Pretoria says General Gen-eral Lord Roberts haa confirmed the sentence of death imposed upon Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Cordua, formerly of the Staats artillery, who was convicted of beinga ringleader in the plot to abduct General Roberts and kill British officers. Dr. Lejds and the Boer envoys have sent from St. Petersburg to Lord Salisbury Salis-bury a strong protest against the latest proclamation of Lord Roberts, maintaining main-taining that they violate every sense of "g-ht and all the principles of international interna-tional law. |