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Updated: May 9, 2025
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The only thing that is at present certain about the matter is that there will be bloodshed, and that before long. For instance, the Montsoia difficulty in the Keate Award has in it the possibilities of a serious war, and there are plenty such difficulties ready to spring into life within and without the Transvaal.
There are plenty more of the same nature if anybody cares to read them. As soon as the news of the rising reached them, every chief of any importance sent in to offer aid to Government, and many of them, especially Montsoia, our old ally in the Keate Award district, took the loyals of the neighbourhood under their protection.
Montsoia has also enlisted some white volunteers, and several fights have taken place, in which the loss of life has been considerable. Amongst the questions remaining for the consideration of the Commissioners was that of what compensation should be given for losses during the war.
The principal Chief, Montsoia, is an old ally and staunch friend of the English, a fact which the Boers were not able to forget or forgive, and they appear to have stirred up rival Chiefs to attack him, and to have allowed volunteers from the Transvaal to assist them.
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