BOER PRISONERS FIRED UPON.
....The "Madras Mail" reports a serious disturbance at the Boer Prisoners' Camp at Trichinopoly on the 3rd inst.
....In the morning, the Camp Police, with the assistance of a Military Guard, had arrested an insubordinate prisoner, and later in the day an attack was made on a sentry of the Lincolnshire Regiment, who fired at his assailant, a man named Botha, said to be a near relative of the Transvaal Commandant. Botha was wounded, and died the next morning. A Sepoy sentry also fired twice into the crowd, mortally wounding two Boers.
....The friends of the prisoners who were killed declined a military funeral.
Hull Daily Mail, Monday 28th April 1902
THE BOER EXILES IN CEYLON AND INDIA.
(Press Association War Special.)
Bombay, Wednesday.......
....There is little excitement among the Boers at Colombo at the conclusion of peace, and they say that many months must elapse before they can return. The Boers at Trichinopoly give no outward signs of their feelings, but they are anxious to know the conditions upon which peace has been arrived at. They offer to pay their own passages to South Africa if they are allowed to return immediately. Their behaviour is quite orderly.
Aberdeen Journal, Thursday 5th June 1902