Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-25
A SURGEON MAKES CHARGES,
Says English Have Violated the
Geneva Convention.

A special cablegram to the New York
Herald from Brussels yesterday says: A
sensational report will be published here
tomorrow morning from DIR. Ramsbottom,
surgeon of Bloemfontein, head of the
Orange Free State ambulance corps at
Modder river.
DR.. Ramsbottorn says that on November
20, after the Modder river battle he sent
his staff with the wounded and they We're
attending to them when they were made
| prisoners of war by the English, despite
their Red Cross badges and the fact that
the Orange Free State is d signatory to
the Geneva convention.
The doctor also states that he and his
companions, the wounded included were
deprived of nourishment and conveyed in
cattle trucks to Cape Town. During halt
between the Groot river and De Aar he
says, they were put in prison with COM
mon criminals for some hours.
On their arrival at Cape Town, he also
says, the hospital authorities acknowledged
that the English military authorities at
Modder river had committed a terrible
blunder and had DR.. Ramsbottom and his
party conveyed back to Modder river
There the English military authorities it
is alleged, refused to surrender to them
their ambulance cars and surgical instru-
ments, and let the doctor. the nurses and
the wounded return to Jacobsdal on foot.
| carrying their personal luggage on their
backs
A solemn protest, DR.. Ramsbottom says,
| is expected from the powers concerning
such open violation of the Geneva conven-
ton
Parody on .Recessional"
F. w Retz. the Transvaal state secre-
| tary, has written a parody upon Rudyard
| kiplings Occasional" 1t is entitled
"Progressionar and is dedicated to Mud
yard Pipling." The first stanza is as fol-
lows:
Gods of the lingo. brass and gold
Lords of the world, by right divine,
| Under whose baneful sway they hold
Dominion over mine and thine
| Such lords as these have made them rotten.
They have forgotten. They have forgotten.
England Would Discuss Neutrality.
| LONDON, January 2J.-The Times in a
special article discussing the recent speech
| of Count Won Bulow, the German foreign
| secretary, with regard to a settlement in
| terna tionally of what constitutes contraband
! and what are the rights of neutrals, says:
I'VE do not doubt that overtures for a
| full discussion OF the subject, If made in
friendly spirit and on broad grounds of
| public interest. would be frankly and
| promptly accepted by the British govern
| ment. What better work could be found
| for the tribunal created by The Hague
| conference than the work of settling the
| question of damages for seizures?"
| spirit Among Beers.
| LONDON, January 25.-The correspondent
| of the Times at Lourenco Marquee. tele-
graphing yesterday and dealing with 1.-THE
| lawlessness of the low class of Beers,
who are getting beyond the control of the
| government, and the better class of Off
Gals, who are honestly desrous of pro-
| tecting life and property says:
| My informants are convinced that the
only. way to save the rand from the fury
| OF the rabble is to cut off the retreat of
| the Beers in the direction of Johannesburg.
| The hot-bloods among the Beers are con-
| v.nced that the war is due to the capital
| lists, and that the only revenge possible is
4 to dynamite the mines
| Travel to TransvaaI Cut on.
| LONDON, January "a dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Lourenco Marquee, dated
Wednesday, says: This morning all pas
| sengers booked for the TransvaaI were
stopped by government order. with the ex-
| ception of the members of the Russian
| ambulance corps, who proceeded by special
| train
Fever in Cronje's Camp.
| LONDON, January pa correspondent
of the Times at Modder River telegraphiug
| Tuesday, says:
THE reports of deserters agree that the
| situation of the Beers at Magersfontein is
| becoming unbearable, because the camp is
| nsanitary. enteric fever is spreading, and
vegetables wanting. On the other
| hand. the health of the British camp is
satisfactory, although the ground has been
| exhausted by the long encampment AMI
| the trees have been cut down by insect
pest and dust storms
Signal for Peace Agitation.
| LONDON, January 25.-The Cape Town
| correspondent of the Times, telegraphins
Tuesday, says: THE Bondites are prepar-
| ing to seize the first decisive British VIC
| tory or the invasion of republican terri
| tory as the signal for violent peace agi-
tation. They will accompany their appeal
ia magnanimity by covertly limiting that
| they are unable to restrain the Dutch colo
nists from rising"