The daily news., 1900-03-30

ahiaNiAi't shDlt --hsS'ltif- a h-tIll'tsdlfO DA
Them -Shpl!ed Funeral Cortege oi
American Defcnselcss Women Wer,
Insulted.
LONDON, March 29-Tlc most Srriou,
Indictment Of th- Boa.s' methods OF
warfare yet appearing in Enrland come,
from Julian Ralph, IKE American cor
respondent, IN a letter from Kimberley,
published in The Daily Mail. I, in part
iS A. foil
1t l. a war steadily and Staalthilv
planned by the queens Dutch subject,
and the DUtch republics for fully ~
years. For between four and ,ix wears
they have been equipped for it. They
began purchasing arms and planning de
f,n>rS before the Jameson raid. Let no
OIr fDJl You with thp falscho,d about
that. FINALLY President Kruger begged
President SreyG % declare war three
years before President Stevn consented.
Next TlI your mind of H." notion that
y1u arr crushing TWO farmer republics
There l. not "a farmer in rhc two CORR
tIlns, and only one. the Free State. was
a republic IN any way except WmisEaming.
Incsr people are herders of cattln. sheep
and iat- like the Isra.lticS of Old and
the AtrIdis, Turks and Balkan peoples of
today. His Che Beers So-callpd farms
ar a. mature made them, merely reaches
Of yellt. whereon his cattle graz.
"on each one be has put up some hut
ana It's surroundings arr almost invari-
ably more repcllart and GisOrderly than
any hOuse / ever SAW, except the cabins
q freed slaves IL the United States.
Their camps and strOnRhOlds from which
we have routed them are the filthiest
places have known men Of any sort 60
live IN, and l have seen red Indian, Chi
nese and Turkish camps, and the camps
OF many SuTts Of black men. As 70 their
bravery and honor, have seen and
heard sufficient Of their oOwardlv and
d dIstardly behavior before Yeoman at
Kimberley. But here | find they have
becn guilty Of different and original
enOrInitieS Here they killed our wound
ed and laid their bodies III Il row after
one Of the f1ravs out Of town. Here
they armed many blarGs 10 fight against
uS showing all the world how scandal
uuEly fraudulent were their eXclnmations
OF horror ar the idea of our employing
native Indian troops. There has hardly
been IA battle IN which the Beers have
not abused either the white flag OF the
Geneva cHUSS, Cr both. At SpiOnkOp our
p'npla SAW them loading NlaXimS in am
hUlauCrS IN order to get tACiu safely
AWAY.
"Th" Boe-s sheile3 the funeral cortcgr
of George l.. Abrum at Kimberley. an
american. They fircI OH our ambu-
lanes. | saw Them do 1t at the Mudder
river and saw th,lu fire on our strctchcr
b ar rs IN that hattie time a2d time
again. When We entered Jacobsdal it
looked like a city of doctors. Every
Iuan In the streets wore the red eros,
lunGage on his arm. These men were
thc men who had iust bcen shooting Us
f. "a behind garden walls. There was
nn'Elng novel or original about their
seeking the cewa~3ly shelter Of a doc
tors badge. We have become quite ac-
cu>tomed to IL. We once entered Boer
lasls-eU after q victory and found - uf
these bogus doctors and seven or eight
Their patients
They have n0t been content with loot
ing rhe houses Of loyah>t> in the British
rpl nnie> and Natal. hut in scores of in
they have smashed into llindling
and torn into ribbons whatever they did
not want or could nor carry of. Worse
yet, they have bcfouled the walls of the
homes .of defensCleSs women with OBJ
Gene writings They never knew the
value If an oath or promise aud have not
learned II since the war begun"