We printed a few days ago an extract showing the childish falsehoods that are spread about among the Boers to induce them to believe they if they wil only continue fighting'a little longer, the tide of war will turn in their favour. The proclamation that we print this morning shows that the Boer leaders still think it worth while to try to persuade their ignorant followers that they are not yet really conquered. To'us it seems almost blasphemous that Mr. Schalk Burger, who calls himself Acting President of the Orange Free State. Christian De Wet, Commandant-General of the Orange: Free State, Louis Botha, Commandant-General of the South African Kepublic, and J. A. Smuts, Public Prosecutor of the South
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