The South-African crisis - pagina 64

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THE SOUTH-AfRICAN

Victories; the losses of the

CRISIS.

enemy exaggerated: the

losses

of the English minimised, while the censorship at Aden has isolated the South African Republics from their own agents, if not from foreign Governments and from

the

whole world. I know a distinguished family in Amsterdam whose married daughter was dangerously ill at Pretoria. No message from her reached them, and the parents were left in the most heartrending uncertainty. But what the doctors of the Transvaal (they

ber 250)

fear

above

all

is

an invasion of

num.

syphilitic

maladies

which prevail to a very alarming extent in army of India. Lord George Hamilton in the House of Commons, Jan 25th. 1S97, himself went so far as to say: "The total the

English

number of admissions to hospital of cases of venereal disease amongst the Indian troops rose in 1895 to 522 per 1000the

number

vaal

doctors

and

of

men

out of service, owing to these maladies, was 46 per thousand per day." The Transare aware of this: and that is why though they are indifferent to the pest at Lorenzo Marques, they dread above all things the venereal infection which the troops from India carry about with them. What do the moralists of of this?

London think Are the Boers so very wrong when they

refuse to accept, otherwise than sous benefice d'inventaire, the civilisation which England promises to South Africa?

X.

How

are

we

present position?

to

solve

Surely

the

it is

enigma of England's playing with words to

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