London, 29th March.
'The most serious indictment of the Boers' methods of warfare which has yet appeared in England comes from Julian in a enter from Kimberley, published in Ralph, the American war correspondent, part, as follows "Te is a war steadily and stealthily planned by the Quees's Datch subjects and the Datch republics for fully twenty For between four and six years have been equipped for it. "They purchasing. arms and planning defences before the Jameson raid. Let one fool _you with false hopes about that. President Krier urged President Steyn to declare war theee years before President Steyn consented. Next rid your mind of the notion that you are crushing two farmer republics. There not a farmer in the two countries and only one, the Free State, was a republic it any way except misnaming. These people are herders of castle, sheep, and goats, like the Israelites of old and the Afridis, Turks, and Balkan peoples of to-day. His (the Boer's) so-called farms are as nature made them, merely ranches of veldt whereupon his cattle graze. Each one has put up a home, but its surroundings are almost invariably more repellent and disorderly than any house I ever saw, except the cabins of freed slaves in the United States, "Their camps and strongholds, frown which we have routed them, ate the filthiest places I have known men of any sort to live in, and I have seen Red Indian, Chinese, and Turkish camps, and the camps of many sorts of blad As to their and honour, I have seen and heard Daily Mail"
nts of their cowardly and dastardly behaviour before I came to Kimberley, But here I find they have been guilty of Gifferent and original enormities. Here they have killed our wounded and laid their bodies in" row after one of the fernys out of town, Here they armed many blacks to fight us, showing all the world how scandalously fraudulent were their exclamaions of horror at the ides of our employ-native Indian troops.
There hws hardly been a battle in which the Boers have not abused either the white flag or the Geneva cross, or both At Spionkop our people saw them leadin, Maxims in ambulances in order to get them safely away. This we saw them do at Modder river also, and Kimberley is where the Boers shelled the funeral rortéye of George L. Abram, an American, At many places they fired on our ambulances. T saw them do it at the Modder river and saw them fire on our stretcher-bearers in that battle time and time When we entered Jacobsdal it looked ike a city of doctors. Every man on th streets wore the red-cross bandage on his arm, These were the men who had just been shooting at us from behind garden walls. There was nothing novel or original about their seeking the cowardly shelter of the doctor's hadge. We have become quite accustomed to it. We once entered a Bovr.laager after a victory and found twenty-seven of these bogs doctors and seven or eight wounded for their patients. Choy have not been content with Inoting the houses of the loyalists in the British colonies, but in Natal in scores of nstunces they have smashed into kindling and torn into ribbons whatever they did not want or could not carry off. Worse yet, they have fouled the' walls of the homes of defenceless women with obscene writings. They never knew the value of an oath or a promise, and have not learned it since the war began."
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