New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-30
JULIAN RALPH on THE BOER.
SEVERE ATTACHMENT OF THE DUTCH By
AN AMERICAN WRITER.

London March 29-The most serious indict-
nsnt Of the Boer methods Of warfare which has
yet appeared in England comes from Julian
Ralph. the American war correspondent, in e
letter from Kimberley published in this morn
ngs Daily Mail" Il is, il part. as follows:
L is war steadily and stealthily planned by
tie Queens Dutch subjects and the Dutch re-
puhlics for fully twenty years. For between
four and six years they have been equipped for
t. They began purchasing arms and planning
1sfences before the Jameson raid. Let no one
..ol you with the falsehOOd about that Finally
President KRUGER begged President Steyn 10
declare three weeks before President Steyn
consented Next rid your mind OF the notion
taat yoU crushing TWO farmer republics.
There IS nor g farmer in the two countries, and
any one the Free State a republic in any
way except u.srau1ing. These people are herd
- cattle sheep and goats, like the Israelites
CT Old and the Af-idis Turks and Balkan peo-
pes @ ne DAY. HIS tJhe BOer s. so-called farms
are nature made them. merely reaches Of
1elct wherein his cattle Craze. On each one
he has pul Up some hut. and its surroundings
are almost invariably more repellenr and dis
orderly than any houses I ever saw except the
cabins Of freed slaves in the United States.
Their camps and sT-onghOlds from which
nave routed chern are The hlLhiest places I have
Er0Tn uea q any sort 70 live in. and I have
seen red Indian Chinese and Turkish camps.
Glo the camps q many sorts OF black men.
As 20 their bravery and honor. I have seen
ano heard sufficient 70 i'll q page Of The Daily
Mar with accounts Of their cowardly and das-
tzrdly behavior before I came 70 Kim berIey.
BEt here find they have been guilty Of different
and original enormities Here they killed our
wounded and laid their bodies in q row after
one OF the forays OUT az town Here they armed
Iaay blacks % fight against Us, showing all
-ne world now sCandaiOusly fraudulent were
tneir exclaInations oT horror al the idea OF
employing native Indian troops There has
hardly been battle in which the Beers have
.oi abused either the white flag or the Geneva
lFoss OF both Al Spion Kop our people saw
men loading Maxin-s in ambUlances, in order
% gel them safely away. This we saw them do
= ne AodGer River also and Kimberley is
Naere the Beers shelied the funeral cortege Of
george L Abrarn. an American. At many places
1eF hred CT our ambulances- I saw them
20 al the MOdder River. and
aen IRE on cur Etretcher bearers in that
aatae tine and tine again. When we
ealsrec JacObsdal i looked like a city Of
Qoetors- Every man in the streets wore the
Rec Cross bandage on his arm. These were the
Mea Who had just been shooting US from behind
sS.len walls. There was nothing novel or orig
q ABOUT thar seeking the cowardly shelter Of
re ooctors badge We have become quite
-asionled 10 Il. We once entered a BOer laa -er
I'er 4 victory. and found rwentv-seven Of these
nelr patients
they have not been content with footing the
L--sts q the lOyalisrs in the British colonies,
~ n Natal IN scores Of instances they have
.l1sheo into kindlings and torn into ribbons
I-ale-er they did not want could not carry
= Morse yet they have fouled the walls Of
ne homes ~ defenceless women with obscene
= promise. and have not learned IL since the
var began.
DUKE OF NORFOLK RESIGNS OFFICE.
London March 29-The Duke OF Norfolk has
.ssgns1 the Office CT Postmaster-General.o owing
!. ne fact that he Is going 20 South Africa with
II sussex Yeomanry.
ne Standard" which Is an excellent source
S9Ternment intelligence. says that the Mar
80 Of Londonderry Will he
naster-General.
PROTEST FROM DR.. LEYDs.
srassels- March 29-Dr. Leyds the Diplo-
nc Agent OF the Transvaal has drawn the
~~eaaon OF the Egyptian and Turkish Govern
-ls 10 the fact that the British Government
ne House % Commons. has admitted that
"azirns were borrowed from the Egyptian
- Tor use n the Trausvaal war and has
-aeo explanations OF this breach Of neu-
- declaring that unless the guns are I'M
a., s -. returned the Transvaai will consider
rs-..a ne Egyptian Government has abandoned
',sst Britain. 0pe'i'S us a. lance 10
stes reply has been vouchsafed to this protest.
vas dispatched on March I3
-@r E. ROOSEVELT KNEW JoUBERT.
c. z Roosevelt. OF No 81 Fifth-ave. knew
ct, 'oroeTt perhaps as Well as any one in the
L. p mar MS death VIII be very great loss to
So a. this zine" said Mr. Roosevelt, ,r
sss - Q, me General IT seems 70 ne thar he
ses,r-.-- ATTEST general think he understood tba
axs,s.aes Of the British and the best methods Of
Eosr .le British more thoroughly than any other
abep, a. General Joupert was IN NeUy-yorlx
gar. sears ago. and was q guest al ny house
xer RECEPTION IN his honor ard became ou,+e
hegb, with him He was man OF medium
sssses.ea sloot naad. and not well educated He
s1rs large amount OF what we sometimes call
az. ara - sense He was accompanied by MS
ser '11 isf greater Cliff Guilty. in und zrs-and