+---------+--------------------+----------+------------------------------+ | Number | Place | Date | Reason | +---------+--------------------+----------+------------------------------+ | | | 1901 | | | 2 | De Aar | March 19 | Train-wrecking. | | 2 | Pretoria | June 11 | Boers breaking oath of | | | | | neutrality. | | 1 | Middelburg | July 10 | Fighting. | | 1 | Cape Town | " 13 | " | | 1 | Cradock | " 13 | " | | 2 | Middelburg | " 24 | " | | 2 | Kenhardt | " 25 | " | | 1 | Pretoria | Aug. 22 | Boer spy. | | 3 | Colesburg | Sept. 4 | Fighting. | | 1 | Middelburg | Oct. 10 | " | | 1 | Middelburg | " 11 | " | | 1 | Vryburg (hanged) | " 12 | " | | Several | Tarkastad | " 12 | " | | 1 | Tarkastad | " 14 | " | | 1 | Middelburg | " 15 | " | | 2 | Cradock (1 hanged, | " 17 | Train-wrecking and murdering | | | 1 shot) | | native. | | 2 | Vryburg | " 29 | Fighting. | | 1 | Mafeking | Nov. 11 | Shooting a Native. | | 1 | Colesburg | " 12 | Fighting, marauding, and | | | | | assaulting, &c. | | 1 | Johannesburg | " 23 | Persuading surrendered | | | | | burghers to break oath. | | 1 | Aliwal North | " 26 | Cape Police Deserter. | | 1 | Krugersdorp | Dec. 26 | Shooting wounded. | | 2 | Mafeking | " 27 | Kaffir murder. | +---------+--------------------+----------+------------------------------+ Allowing 3 for the 'several' at Tarkastad on October 12, that makes a total of 34. Many will undoubtedly be added in the future, for the continual murder of inoffensive natives, some of them children, calls for stern justice. In this list 4 were train-wreckers (aggravated cases by rebels), 1 was a spy, 4 were murderers of natives, 1 a deserter who took twenty horses from the Cape Police, and the remaining 23 were British subjects taken fighting and bearing arms against their own country. _Hostages upon Railway Trains._