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Show DEWET REPORTED DEAD. Letter From a Prominent Boer States That. Boer General Succumbed to a Wound. General Dewet's recent inactivity has produced the impression among military men that he is either dead or incapacitated through illness or wounds. According to a letter from Pretoria, a prominent Boer recently wrote ta friend there relating the terrible ter-rible hardships suffered by the Boers in the field, especially from a lack of surgeons. "Dewet, for example," wrote the Boer, "suffered the most terrible agony before he died. He was wounded in the shoulder by a splinter from a shell, and the wound gangrened in consequence conse-quence of it being dressed with dirty rags." Five Boeia captured at different places recently said Dewet was dead, but gave a different version of his death. Against these reports is a statement of Piet De Villiers, the field cornet recently re-cently taken prisoner in the northeastern north-eastern part of the Orange River Colony, Col-ony, who said that on the morning of his capture he took breakfast with General Dewet. |