The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-22
BOERS WARM
THE BRITISH
Dewet and Steyn Threaten
Course Of Reprisals.
TELL OF RAPINE AND
MURDER OF ENGLISH
Declare Rules of War Are
Violated.

Port Elizabeth. Wednesday, Feb 90.
The following proclamation has beer
issued by President steyn and Genera
Dewet:
BE it known 10 all men that the
war which has been forced on the
TransvaaI republics by the British gov
eminent sdn RACES over South Africa;
that all the customs of civilized war
fare and also the conventions of Ge-
neva and The Hague are not observed
by the enemy. who have not serupled
contrary to the Geneva convention to
capture doctors and ambuIances and
deport them in order to prevent our
wounded from getting medical assist
ance: that they nave seized ambulance
material appertaining thereto; that
they have not hesitated to have re-
course to primitive rules of warfare,
contrary to the solemn agreement OF
The Hague to arrest neutrals and de-
port them and to send out marauding
bands to plumber, burn and damage
burghers' private property; that they
have armed Kaffirs and natives and
used them against US III the war that
they have been continually capturing
women and children and old and sickly
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deaths among the women because the
sO-caHed Christian enemy had no con
sideratiOn for women on a sickbed, or
those whose state Of health should
have protected them against rough
! treatment.
Women Are Assaulted.
Honorable women and tender chill
dren have not only been treated rough
~, but have been insulted by soldiers
by order OF their officers. Moreover,
old mothers and women have been
the property OF prisoners of war, even
killed bUrghers, has not been respected
In many instances the mother and
father have been taken, the houses left
unprotected and all have been left to
their fate an easy prey to SaYageS
THE world has untruthfully been in
4 formed by the enemy that they have
been obliged to carry out this destruc-
ton because the burghers blow up the
railroad lines, cut the wires and mis-
use the white flag. Nearly all the
houses in the republics have been de-
strOyed. whether in the neighbOrhoOd
of the railroad or not. The alleged
misuse of the white flag is simply
continuance of the everlasting calumny
against which the Afrikander has had
to strive since the time God brought
him into contact with the Englishman-
RObbing his opponent of goods only
does not satisfy him; he Is not salts
fed until he has robbed him Of his
good name also.
Republics Not Conquered.
"'They state to the world that the re-
pubiics are conquered and that only
here and there small plundering bands
are continuing the stTIIe in an ire
sponsible manner. This is an untruth-
The republics are not conquered The
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of the two republics are still led by
responsible leaders, as from the com
mencement of the war, under the SUI
pervision of the government of both
/ republics. The fact of Lord Roberts
and Lord Kitchener choosing the term
'marauders' in designating the burgh-
ers does not make them such.
when was the war Over2 Perhaps
after the battles in which irregulars
captured the enemy and totally van
quished them.
..The burghers would be less than
men if they allowed the enemy 10 go
unpublished after tll-treating their
wives and destroying their houses from
sheer lust of destruction. Therefore,
portion of the bUrghers resent H.
Cape Colony viii not only wage war,
hut will be in a position to take re-
/ prisals. as it has already done In the
case of ambulances, therefore. we warn
1.-THE officers of his maj esty's troops that
unless they. cease the destruction of the
property Of the republics we shall
: wreak vengeance by destroying the
property of his majesty's subjects who
are unkindly disposed. But IN order TO
avoid being misunderstood we hereby
/ openly declare that their wives and
| children viii always be unmOlested, IN
spite of anything done TO ours by MS
/ ma iesty's troops. We request nothing
/ from our brothers in the colony but
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/ lied world. to assist in behalf Of our
/ Joint civilization and Christianity in
putting an end to the barbarous man
ner of the enemy's warfare.
! Our prayer viii always be that Cod
our Father will not desert us IN this
/ unrighteOus strife
/ (Signed.)