The Sunday globe., 1901-08-04
A SHAMELESS LIE
Is. the English Calumny Against the
Brave Beers.
THE TRUTH At LAST REVEALED
English Butchers Did Murder Beers In Cold
Blood Did XIII Their Prisoners, and The
C Murderers say That They Did so Over Their
Own Signatures Beers as Brave as
Th5y are Humane.

The truly democratic English jour
nal Reynolds London Newspaper, IN
threecolumn write-up, completely lis.
proves the charge that the Beers kill
ed or misused the wounded at Vlak.
fontein, as charged by Lieutenant
Hern Even this officer has weakened,
and now says he only saw one Boer
violating the rules of war. Here are
excerpts from Reynolds to hand:
"WO do not think that any person
with a grain of sense will take notice
Of charges such as have been brought
by an exposed journalistic sque2Ier
like HaHsworth's Daily Mail question.
ing the humanity of the Dutch Repub,
licau farmers. That impudent sheet
has been too often corrected to merit
authority from any but those gaping
and Credulous persons who imagine
that the Lord made the universe for
those Outlanders beyond the seas-the
AuglO-SaNon hOrdes who came and
possessed themselves of Britain after
the same fashion as they are trying to
rob the Dutch of their Republics in
South Africa. This campaign would
not have existed for q day were it not
for the lies that have been told in the
capitalist and Jingo press These false
hoods have been exploded one after
the other, only for a fresh lie to be in
vented at the earliest opportunity
England is now commonly called
throughout the world The Nation of
Liars, owing to the fact that the lingo
and Tory press is owned by capitalists
who are largely interested in stocks,
shares and financial advertisements,
and wkOm it pays to deceive the pub
lie.
Next It will be in the recollection
of all our readers how a certain lieu
tenant, writing TO the Times, described
with savage eXultation the slaughter
of surrendered Boers-which he de.
scribed as 'pigsticking'- Glands
laagte In this journal we have pub
lished numerous letters, showing by
the evidence of the soldiers themselves,
that on occasion they have given the
Beers no quarter
Did any word Of condemnation
come from the lingo and Tory jour
mails? Not one, By their silence they
approved Of these deeds.
Miss Hobhouse's revelations as to
the Massacre Of the Innocents in the
camps, where we have confined our
child and women prisoners, were ere
ating q profound sensation. This
must be cOunteracted said the inan-
cial cOnspirators. So their organs in
the press were set TO work throughout
the country, and they invented fine
story about the killing of wounded
English at Vlakiontein, where our sol
diers ran away leaving the hospital In
y.F Oh cd l.H-u u
soldier correspondent in the Tory and
lingo Standard, whose letter we copy
below.
Among tn. authorities given for the
killing of the wounded, in a Jingo pa
per. the Daily Chronicle, was Lieuten
ant Hern. That officer has been com.
municated with on the subject. IL was
stated that Lieutenant Hern, while ~
ing wounded, saw number Of British
in the same position shot by a Boer,
and that during this experience he suf-
fered the 'tortoures Of the damned
In a telegram to the Western Mail,
Cardiff, Lieutenant Hern states:
Please contradict statements made in
Chronicle. Entirely false-HERN'
Thus the officer has stamped this
Pro-Gore statement as a falsehOod.
VIII the liars apologize? Since this
telegram, Lieutenant Hern has stated
that he saw one Boer act in the way
described. In the heat Of battle, at
close quarters, this must be constant
occurrence.
Now let us quote some letters re-
ceived within the last few days from
soldiers who were i'm the NlaWfOntein
affair. And first the following letter
and enclosure which appeared in the
Standard of Saturday last, the stand
ard being as we have said, one Of the
chief Tory and lingo organs:
ITO the Editor of The Standard:
Sir: On reading the terrible ac-
counts of the ill.treatment Of the
wounded at Vlakfontein, I feel impel-
led TO send you some extracts from a
letter written by my son, Ieoman,
who was wounded i'm that engagement.
Trusting this will show that all Beers
are not brutal am, sir your ODedi-
eut servant,
WITHOUT PHEJuDICE
July H.
After describing how he was wound.
ed and his comrade killed he says:
Directly c. was dead, the two
Dutchmen dismounted right on us and
I watched them as they took off his
bandolier and rife. One Of them-a
yourg man-lifted me up by the shoul.
ders and said in perfect English. HUI
10. old chap. what's up with you| /
replied Shot through the thigh He
took off my bandolier and picked mp
my rife which had fallen from my
hand. He asked if had revolver.
said No and he told me to take off
my belt-the one j. gave me. lie
took this and all my money about 3Os.
He then pulled me few yards TO one
side and put my head under the shelter
of "a piece of stone about @ inches high,
and lpft saying. Keep STILL and You
will Boz all right The other man came
I'D and took my watch Off my wrist
asked him TO give me some water, ho
replied. Hold out your har and De
quick ] did so, and he poured some
water into &c. They then left me lying
there. ] was right iu the
center of the enemy, and their com
maudant came and took mp bis posi-
ton about I . yards from me- He was
fine. big man. with "a white plume
and magnificent horse Another man
came and stood over me. and fred
from that position ! asked him how
things were going He didn't reply,
except 70 laugh in -aIfsatisGod
fashion the next night the
column left for Naawp0rt leaving the
hospital behind. The following morn
ing few Dutchmeu came down TO see
us and TO say that some of our dead
were sUll lying outside They were
very decent in their behavior. One of
them offered an orderly 5s. for his hat
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