The Sunday globe., 1901-08-11
SWORN FACTS
Showing that England is Hiding Be-
hind the Women
OF THE BOER HEROES
And EndeaOrHg 10 Subdue Them Through
Their Affections for Their Families. After
Failing 10 Whip Them ON the BatteiIed-The
DiabOlOaI WeJsr Scheme Carried OutIn Africa
10 which this Administration Is a Party,

10 which this Administration IS Party
The following affidaWts and CORE
spondence are self.eXplanatory. They
show that England practically defeat
ed on the field Of battle by the Dutch
men of the two republics copied the
ignominious and deyilsh device Of
Weyler in Cuba, and, hiding behind the
Dutch women and children in the
death destroying reconcentrado camps
seek to play upon the affections of the
Dutch heroes for their women and
children, with the hopes that they will
surrender and give up the struggle to
save their families.
What a cowardly spectacle is this
hoastful world-power presenting to the
nations Of the earth. Her army so
demOraliZed that on the slightest pre-
text her soldiers surrender to the
Beers that they may be paroled and
sent home, over 100000 fighting men
unable to whip from the field less than
oneeighth their number. Chamber
lains brag of "a fight to a finish has
been grimly accepted by the Beers, and
if the contest ends in England's finish
LlAllltllllN w III bN Nlh EtlAH'lH wi Atllll
it is that the finish will not be the
subsection of the Beers or their accept
ed conquest by the pirate nation.
Here are the atiidayits which expose
this cowardly and villainous British
policy to which our State Department
is, If not the active ally, at least
consenung party and by making this
country a base Of supplies for the
British is, in fact, aiding that mon.
archical power to wipe out two sister
republics,
A LIVING SHIELD.
State Of Illinois, County Of Cook
IS.
collie Henry, being first duly sworn,
on oath, deposes and says;
THAT he is an American citizen, and
that he lived in Pretoria South Al
rican Republic, from November, 1895,
to March 26, 1901, and that he held
the rank Of captain i'm the Boer army
with the corps known as the Ameri
can Scouts;
"That he is acquainted with the gee
graphical and military situation in the
South African Republic the Orange
Free State, Cape Coloney and Natal, in
South Africa, and that he believes the
British government have congregated
the women and children in reconcen-
trado camps to act as a living shield
for the protection Of its army;
That he firmly believes that il the
10000 loved ones were removed from
the British camps to neutral territory
the Beers would have more heart and
courage, and would be able to take i'm.
portant positions now held by and es-
sential to the British, which they can
not take now without killing their own
people;
THAT he further believes that if
these people were removed to neutral
territory the Beers would effectually
destroy the railroad communication,
thereby compelling the British army to
withdraw from Pretoria, Johannes.
berg, BloemfOntein and the interior of
South Africa to the seaport towns.
That he further believes that it Is
owing to these recCnCentrado camps
that the Beers do not affectually de-
stroy the railroad communication as
by doing so they would be starving
their own loved families.
"Deponent further says that he has
a'NAl NAA' l'AbAA' 'lAA Il ANlb NGlAlD near i re-
toria, and that it is hard to believe
that the reconCentradO camps insti-
tuted by the infamous Weyler in Cuba,
which so justly aroused the indigna-
tiOn Of the people of this country,
could in any way excel the horror, des.
tituton, sickness and starvation exist
ing in these camps, where, according
to recent admissions made in the
House Of Parliament, out of a total Of
S2,iO9 people, III died in the month
OF June
"Dcpenent further says that he
makes this affidavit in the hope of
arousing sympathy among the Ameri-
can people to such an extent that out
OF their wellknowR generosity and
charity they will be induced to raise a
fund large enough to provide for the
removal Of these persons to neutral
territory, thereby alleviating their
great suffering and giving the men con-
stituting the armies of the respective
nations a chance to fight it out among
themselves, as men should.
"OLLE Henry"
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
a notary public in Cook County this
27th day Of July, 1901.
JAMES II. HEALD,
lSeal) Notary Public"