The South-African crisis - pagina 62

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

left

arm by a dum-clum

for

hi8

CRISIS.

bullet, and quite naked except and that the General affirmed that during the night an English soldier had taken all his effects aud all his clothes, and had thus left him

in

shirt;

anguish.

his

that

King's

Royal

the

Dublin

nito

Stead

English

in

War

his

soldier,

G.

against

Gavin

War

of the

himself saw

Rifles,

Fuseliers

body

the

Mr.

an

relates

another soldier of thrust his sabre up to the hilt

prisoner who had surrendered. from the wounded and captive men of the Dutch corps which have been published in our

Further,

of a

all letters

journals

attest

that

the

Lancers

were and that almost all the wounded a,nd prisoners were robbed of their purses, their watches, and their keepsakes. But, I am convinced infiiriated

especially

at "Elands Laagte,

that the English War-Office reproves these inhumanities and that in England every humane man loathes

them but I ask again is it thus that the propaganda of superior civilization can be conducted ? The prisoners :

at Pretoria,

I

unanimous

in

the

understand from Mr. Churchill, have been acknowledging that the Boers treated

wounded

reproach,

and prisoners

and

the

English

that they conduct the

Arbitration

is

war

in

a manner

generals have

beyond admitted

in a chivalrous spirit.

the mot cTordre of modern civilisation.

Well, Mr. Kruger and Mr. Steyn have always adhered to

it.

It

restrictions,

was admitted in

the

though with Convention of London. It was

adopted in 1885 in the

in

principle,

affair of

the coolies. Mr. Kruger

presented to Sir Alfred Milner, during the Conference at Bloemfontein, a scheme of arbitration elaborated

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