The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-30


wounded, and five are missing. During
the skirmish north OF the Modder river
on March 3. Five men were wounded.
Three are reported TO be missing. Cap
tain Sloan Stanley OF the Sixteenth Lane
ers and five men OF that regiment were
taken prisoners"
JULIAN RALJH HATES THE Beers
London. March 2e.-The most serious in
dictm.nt OF the Beers methods Of war
fare which has yet appeared In England
comes from Julian Ralph. the American
war correspondent, IN a letter from
Kimberley published in this mornings
Daily Mail 1t is, in part. as follows;
ut Is a war steadily and stsalthilf
planned by the queens Dutch subjects
and the Dutch republics for fully TWEEN
ty years. For between four and six years
they have been equipped Tor IL They
began purchasing arms and planning de-
lenses before the Jameson raid Let no
one fool you with the falsehood about
that. Finally, President Kruger begged
President Steyn to declare war, three
years before President Steyn consented.
Next rid your mind OF the notion that
you are crushing the farmer republics.
There Is not a farmer IN the two eoun-
tries. and only one, the Free State. was
a republic many way except mis-naSnlng-
These people are herders OF cattle, sheep
and goats, like the Israelites Of old, and
the Afridis. Turks AMI Balkan peoples OF
today. His uhe Boer's) so-called farm.
Is as nature made It. mercy reaches OF
veldt whereon his cattle Craze. On each
he has put on home, and It's surround
ings are almost Inv ariably more repel-
liant and disorderiy than any houses 1
ever saw, except tie cabins OF freed
slaves in the United States. Their~amps
and stranghoIds from which we have
routed them are the ATHEIST places l
have known men OF any sort 10 live IN.
ana | have seen red IrJ,an. Chinese and
Turkish camps, and the camps az many
sorts of black men AS to their bravery
and honor. 1 had seen and heard sufii-
Gent to fill a rage OF The Daily Mall
with accounts Oh thei, cowardiy and das-
tdrdl' behavior before 1 came to Kim
berley. But here, Inc. they have been
guilty ot different and oiginal enormIties.
Here they killed our wounded and laid
their bodies in a row after one % the
forays cut OF town. Here they armed
many blacks TO fight US showing all the
world how scandalously fraudulent were
their ordinations OF horror a. the idea
Of our employing native Indian troops.
There has hardly been a battle In which
the Beers have not abused either the
white flag or the Geneva cross. or both.
At Spion Kop our people saw them load
ing Maxims in am balances, in order 20
get them safely away. This we saw them
do at AIodder river. also. and KiTnber ey
IS whore the Beers shelled the funeral
cortege OF George L. Abram, m Ameri-
can. At many places they fred on our
ambuIances. 1 cav them DO It a. Mod
der River and cav them FIRE on our
stretcher bearers IN that battle. time and
time again. when We entered Jacglsdal
II hooked IKE a city OF Doctors Every
man IN the streets wore the red cross
bandsEs on his sTm- These were the
men who had ujst been shooting Us from
behind garden walls. There vas nothing
novel or original about their seeking the
cowardly shelter % the Doctors badge
We have become cutie accustomed 70 T.
We once entered a Peer Ia&gsr and found
t~e1:y-seven OF these bogus doctors and
seven or eight wosn6ed. f9r taelr pa
tents. They have not been content ~ n
footing the house houses % che s9yaIlsts
in the British colonies. but Ia nal IA
scores OF Instances. they have azaas hsd
into kin5HDgs and torn iato ri5o5ns
whatever they 6id not wart OF cosi8 bot
carry OF. Worse yet. they have f7u-ed
the walls OF the homes = 5sseuAeless
women With obscene writings. Ther ssser
knew tia value q an ozth O. pr5ausss.
and have not learned i since tie Ezr De-
gan"
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