The sun., 1900-06-10
WAR PLANS OF THE BOERS.
4 TIME WHEN THEY TH0U0hr
LORD ROBERTS WAS CHECKED.

LORD ROBERTS WAS CHECABD.
ne situstiss a. Sees 10 Pretoria Bsssrs the
Advance From Bieemfontein- Osly $4,000
Busshsrs TAsn In the Fisla-Cenplaints
Of the Treatment Of Bosr Prisoners.
Prom tn. SUNS Correspondent a Pretoria
PRETORIA, April 27.-The new plan Of cam
paign initiated by the Federal Commanders
since the lamented death Of Gen. Joubert Is
apparently working out well. to judge by the
ast results OF the last four weeks operations.
Lord Roberts. hampered enormously by illness
both among his men and his beasts by abnormal
transport difficulties for the immense daily sup
piles required. his communication lines by rail
limited again to only one route, via Kimberley.
and the last 100 miles Of II by desert road, must
have his hands pretty full. and as fact he has
been unable to move since he occupied the capt.
tai Of the Free State more than six weeks ago.
ais real difficulties will. however. only begin
whsn he reaches the vicinity Of the Vsal River
and has to depend on the Spruits and rivers
fsedingit.
Yesterday ! saw q ragged and bullet-torn
Union Jack presented by Gen. Fronemann to
ono OF the American war correspondents after
the battle Of sannaspost. II Is the first regi-
mental fiae which has fallen into Boer hands.
for tho British troops, different from other ma
tio,. ,.,r 10 carry tbsir co,ors into hattie and
lock tbem I'm safely at tho coast before leaving
on active service The late Commandant
(,srevsl pist Jouhert remarked 10 me not long
hsfors bis deoth when casually perusing an
illu,tratcd volume Of the Napv and Armp maya
sIne ON sceins the ragged hopored standards.
which had nassed through the Crimean and
peninsu,ar wars that Ia thoueht the British must
Estimate the lighting oualities of their Boer
snemie. nj n very high value seeine they never
brousht their standards into African ba tiles and
there IN certainly something remark able about
tho fact and II has given rise to varied specu-
latiye conolusions
No words can describe the great and gen.
sral INDIGNATION among the Afrikander people
NJ tho bad treatment of the burgher prisoners
At the Cana. do not refer to want OF food
supplies. but TO the locality first chosen for
their coufinement--drty filthy. insanitary
Simopstown. No wonder TINT we hear Officially
that mora than forty died in five days from
typboid and other feyers say that We heard,
because that is what we are officially informed
by British telegrams From private, smug-
eled but Trustworthy. information we learn
That tho percentage Of deaths Is simply ap-
pallInu. II seems indeed terrible that after our
men stood the Paardeberc bombardment with
Cronje for ten DAYS or the hellish lyddite hail
Of twelve days in the Tugela trenches that
after surrenderinp as these gallant fighters
did with British bayonets at their throats
and walls of dead soldiers around them. they
should be sent to die. even unknown to their
families at a filthiiy kept and unhealthful
naval station.
Let lis COMPARE figures from this side We
have now &. 400 captive soldiers at Waterfall,
sso on the raceoourse and 100 officers in new
quarters. In the seven months OF this war
three-ouarters of these men have been prac-
tically here the whole time; many OF the SOL
diers arrived in the last Stages of exhaustion
and staryatiop. not 10 speak OF wounds. dis
ease 40 amonu them after wears of garrison
ife in India. or the q ono men capt,,red and
confined here one officer and forty-seyen
men have died. all with six exceptions. from
voupds and ulness contracted nrior IN reach.
inr the F,oer lines
The or,cers when arriving .,ck and wounded
ara n,aced In IN. RourLe Volunteer uosni,sI
. var in.,it,,io, .st.hlisbsa nv nohls.
h..r,od pr,,i.h horn huryh.r Of ,ranv v.ora,
rs.,aono. h.r. Thov arc Waited man INV
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notice IN. beaIthv ,ook NJ tho ;pcarceroted
man ofter n fau roor,hs res, and beinu"starvad"
a. .uao.d In ,hs ,,oo nrc.s IN the hracing
h.o,,hv a,r ~ tho TronsvaaI bigh ve,dti
And tier ,hi,L 81 orr dcor onas d,,;n,
NLa shsen at simons,own or ON transnorts
~ a, ~ I.,.no heaIhfu, ononcb for ordi,arv
r.or,a hnt NO on oyue stotior With ia ,no,.t
900 yanors utterly unsuitable for men horn
and hred in a,d accustomed all their lives N
m. ooo foot altitude of the rro,syoal and
nortbe,, rrno STATE Roth n, tho Cane and
all oyer the ,wo rs,uhlics vo,,e, and ,r,.
ar. ,roe,v ,.or,,, ,oge,bar with ae,ora,
p,o, ,,,nister. 70 ,,,.aaa nt once ,o tho ;s,o,d
rock nj tho contra, Atlantic IN attend rurse
and comfort the Federal prisoners.