An item reported that on board of the transport Kent which anchored at Gravesend to land the river pilot two men were arrested of 25 and 30 years age who had engaged the Yeomanry in the company of Lord Allwyne Compton. Both men had in the past been in South Africa and were suspected of being spies for the Boers.
Note
1. The Second Boer War found place between 11 October 1899 and 31 May 1902 and ended in a defeat of the Boers and regaining British sovereignty of the Orange Free State and South African Republic (Transvaal). In 1920 became the Union of South Africa part of the Commonwealth.
