Washington sentinel., 1900-09-08
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THE BoERS. take any chances
with sthe Beers
after she has once got them licked,
and so, it is whispered, the Gov
ernment has devised 4 plan to dis
pose Of them in such a way as to
effsctualIy blot them out as race
as we'll as a nation. The plan is
simple enough. 1t contempIates
sending every Boer soldier into
exile when Deace has once been
established. This practically
means the expatriation OF every
male Boer now living above the
age OK sixteen.
BY this plan the Government
means to prevent any further up
rising or rebellion OF the hard
fighting Beers. 1t IS regarded as
a certainty that il the Beers were
permitted 70 remain in South
Africa, even under the strictest
surveillance Of British troops, 1t
would not be long before the willy
burghers would be plotting-and
plotting skrlfullv-to wrest the
country from English control and
regain their independence, AT the
best they would be ever thorn in
the side OF the new colonial gov
erument and so England has de-
creed that they must be banished.
E The feature Of the plan that
seems 70 insure the ultimate eX-
tinction of the Beers as a race is
the arrange me1t for separating the
exiles into groups and sending
them TO different parts otthe world.
The first step in this great eX-
patriation scheme was taken when
Gen. Cronie with his entire army
was captured and shipped away to
St. Helena, where England kept
the great Napoleon a prisoner until
death released him. That batch oil
exiles numbered about three thou-
sand. Since then the number has
been increased bY prisoners cap
tured during the pacihcation OF the
Orange Free State until now the
Boer exiles on St. Helena form 4
prison colony Of about FIVE thou
sand.
The second step in the plan wa
inaugurated recently Nhen Lore
Roberts was ordered 10 send his
prisoners into exile on the ISLAND
OF Cey lon. He is at present carry
ing out those orders, and already
more than four thousand burghers
captured in the Bethlehem district
are on their way there.
The final step will not come
however, until Paul Kruger has
surrendered and British soldiers
are quartered in every town anc
village to restore order and estab.
lish the sovereignty Of the Queen
Then many arrests will be made o
men who bore arms during the wal
and are egarded IS danger Gus anc
suspicious characters to have
around loose. In the meantim,
there will have been many NOR,
Transvaalers captured under arms
and this last lot Of Beers will b.
sent, it is said, to some place il
Australia, not yet selected.
Curiously enOu gh, the place Sc
lected tor the Boer prisoners il
Ceylon rs called the Happy Val.
ley" and according to descriptions
vi tire ruuurrzs if ,fs- gtzsr4y- ts,.s = II
ers who fought Valiantly but in
vain to save their homes and fire.
sides IN South Africa can ever be
happy anywhere else they ought to
be happy there. It is said to be a
beautiful country, full Of boulders
and kOpj es, much like the land they
Left. A building erected some
years ago in the Happy Valley by
the Wesleyan Mission near Diyat.
aIawa for use a S a boys reiorma.
tory will be occupied by the pris
oners as well as a number oil new
buildings now being constructed
AccOmmo datiOns are being pre-
pared for 1900 men, and the con
tractors have been notified tina
they must be ready in three weeks
The Ceylon ObSeyvcy, the chic
newspaper in the island, gives the
following interesting particular!
about the scheme:
Accommodation IS to be pro
vjded for no less than 5000 men
and TO give our readers some ide;
of the vast amount of building.
required to accommodate thi!
number Of men we may say tha
upward Of fifty large houses, eacE
over 100 ieet long, covered witt
IRON roofing, have to be erected fol
the prisoners alone. The work Il
being steadily pushed at the Gov
ernment factory, and in a fort
nights time some of the shedding
will have been erected on the pro
posed site. The accommodation
for the troops who are to act a!
guard is being arranged for by tht
military authorities, who will con
struct the necessary barracks. Thi!
work IS under the control Ct Col
Savage, commanding the Roya
Engineers, and this department
too, will see TO the water supply
for the stream which supplied the
Happy Valley Relormatory anc
Schools will not nearly suffice fol
so large a body Of men as are tc
be housed at Diyatalawa. In fact
this place will, when the Boer pris
oners arrive, be converted into +;
small town containing the larges
number Of white folks OF any towr
in Ceylon, seeing that It will hole
about ,ocO men
1t IS almost certain that the tern