SOUTH AFRICA: Siege of the Foster gang / Funeral of General Koos de la Rey (1914)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Police officers besieging the Foster gang and the funeral of General Koos de La Rey (Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey), who was a Boer general during the Second Boer War. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: The Johannesberg (Johannesburg) Bandits SLATE INFORMATION: In September three men concerned in the murder of two policemen at Fairview made for a cave in the Kopjes near Johannesburg, where they were besieged by the Police. People flocked to the spot and watched events. SOUTH AFRICA: EXT People gathered to view siege of the Foster gang, wanted for murder and bank robbery, in a cave by armed police officers SLATE INFORMATION: Guarding the entrance to the caves. Armed police and others besieging the caves to prevent the escape of the gang SLATE INFORMATION: The siege was such a long one that the police were regula