To the Editor of the oura-Cama Datty New Sir,—I notice in your issue of this morn ing under the heading " Boer Burbarity"" a Reuter telegram to the effect that the Boers after recent engagement killed the y found lying on the field. tages of the war reports of Boer atrocities, abuses of the white flag, shooting of British refusing to fight against their own nationals, killing of peace envoys, were frequently sent home by a certain class of correspondents who, unable to obtain any real news, eagerly treated the home public to this kind of stut, whicl earned for South Africa Mr. Winston Churchill's historic expression " the land of lies."
These stories of Boer savageness were subsequently "disproved by the accounts of every British officer" or soldier, who had been in contact with the Boers either as prisoner or otherwise, Their experience of their enemies has, according to all published recor been as favourable as can reasonably be expected in time of war. T have not read a single complaint of ill-treatment, on the contrary I have read in more than one newspaper letters from men who have been prisoners of the Boers, and who admit that except their liberty they were not without anything, which the Boers had for themselves. As regards the killed and wounded Britishers, who fell into the hands of the Boers, I have always read that the former were decently buried after Spionkop, Magersfontein, and so many other engagements, and that the latter were cared for by the Boers in the same way 8s their own wounded. The Boer forces have always been accompanied, as we know, by ambulances with doctors and nurses from Holland and Germany.
Now Reuter informs us that the Boers have turned over a new leaf and kill the wounded they find on the field, a barbarity which only savages of the lowest order resort to. It would of course be an insult to your intelligence to suggest that you believe such nonsense, and the only explanation is that Reutersagency has no news to wire or at rate none that is expected to be to the liking of newspaper readers in the
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