The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-22

Ter, tt.edTScePted him on his way to Kimberley.
on he exclaimed. ~I should have asked
th tnem TO give me a horse; 1t is not at an
the weather for walking
The Standards Kimberley corre
spondent states that the Sunday previous
TO the relief, when petitions praying that
surrender be resorted to were being cir
culated In the beleaguered town: Mr.
Rnodes received a message through the
intelligence department from Lord Rob
erts, saying it would be too humiIia ting
Tor the town to surrender after its brave
oe1@nce, and asking him to assure the
people that relief would reach them in
IeW days The message, as received by
Mr.. Rhodes, was marked Secret I met
him shortly after it's receipt. when he
read 1t to me, saying: I know Lord
Roberts never intended it to be kept Sc
eret. The people need something to cheer
them up, and 1 want every one to know
nave received this cheering news He
also caused placards to be placed at the
corners of the principal streets announc-
ing that the De Beers and Kimberley
mines would be lighted and opened as
places Of shelter for women and children
at p. m. Over fifteen hundred were ac-
commodated at De Beers, and thirteen
hundred in the Kimberley mines, while
twelve hundred took refuge under the
railway bridge, which was also extern
porized by him as place of shelter In
these places they were fed and looked
after by Mr. Rhodes Dr. Smart, M. L. A
Gardiner Williams and staff of able as
sistants during the four days of active
shelling which followed"
The same correspondent, writing of the
hardships of the siege, says:
For many days the novelty of eating
horsefiesh formed an agreeable break In
the war talk. Starving people, however.
take kindly to any article of food Per-
sonaliy, although / have always found a
piece or succulent horsefesh excellent
eating, l am not taking any of it in KIM
periey. Not only are the wretched ami
mails reduced to skin and bone, but there
is prevailing epidemic of influenza and
cough among them, which forces me to
abandon Its. use. 1t is, however dailv
served out to the soldiers, as well as the
people, though there are of cases Of
anthrax in the hospital and an outhreob
Of scurvy in many of the redoubts Tbe,a
mas also broken out peculiar form of
throat trouble. which may owe It's orisrir
70 tnls article of food. At $50 D. m all
conversation ceases and rumors stop. for
py proclamation, all lights-except e1ec.
IIic or acetyline gaS-muSt be extinsyl1fsh
e9, ana even In South Africa one finds no
dark Aeo lies IN the
There are many cases of extreme suf-
Lterlng, which. although due to the siege
HaEe I've reached climax from constitu.
tonight in Kimberley who are STRAINED
70 their bedsteads, and wearing strait
lackets' sas' mad from sheer nervousness and
Irlgnt. ! know. Of the case of a woman
from johannesburg. who, in q rand de-
CINE, ourdened with the care Of two chill
dren, not her own, too Ill to go out for her
dally supply of food, has gone for three
Gays without sustenance, because her only
servant was a Kaffir girl AS native mes.
sengers are not served until all the white
persons have been attended to, she had
TO return to her mistress day after day
such cases. but they are exceptional. and
these.
The fun report Of Mr.. Rhodes's speech
at the De Beers meeting concluded with