The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-03
EXTERMINATING THE BOERS.
n Terrible Fate That IL Befaiiing the
Old Inhabitants OF the TransvaaI.

The Terrible Fate That IL Befalling the
Old Inhabitants OF the Transvaal.
Lord Miner, his Majesty's High Com
missioner in South Africa. said in a speech
at Durham, Natal. on last Monday. that
II was useless to wait until the war was
over to begin the ~repopulation OF the oon-
quered territory. The war, he declared. might
never be over though IL was burning itself
out and I'VE ought to show ourselves mas
tiers In the house we a taken by rebuild
ing 1t and beginning to livesin It," The
same despatch says: THE Imperial author
tiles have reached the conclusion that
the early repeopling' Of the Transvaal
and Orange River Colonies Is advisable,
no that the normal industrial and agri-
cultural life OF the colonies may be resumed. =
The British now talk Of repeopling
the conquered territory. because they
knowns that there can be no devel-
opment unless colonists In large num-
bers are brought into the country. The
Beers are gone. This Ia an awful fact,
but II Is true. Many thousands OF them
are dead, many thousands have been sent
into exile, many thousands OF women and
children are prisoners in the hands Of their
enemies, living In guarded stockades in
Natal and Cape Colony. The Beers have
been swept out Of the countries they made.
President Krnger said before the war be-
gan that the Beers would fight till the last
man fell In his tracks In defence OF their
homes. Who believed IL possible that
this terrible prediction would almost liter
ally be realized? Who believed three
years ago that the prosperous Boer farmers
and herders Of millions Of sheep and cattle
- 4 H. /. .-z.. a.t ~ NlAtr -,
try root and branch, the two republics
turned into a wilderness. and new blood.
new immigration imperatively necessary
to prevent the Boer plateau from reverting
to its original state Of barbarism.
No small war ever before involved such
terrible sacrifices. No war ever before
was the cause Of 10 much suffering in pro-
portion TO the number OF people engaged
I'm 1t. Three years ago 10000 Boer farmers
were living on the Transvaal plateau tend
ing their herds Of cattle. Their humble
f~armhouses, the outbuildings in which
their hired black labor lived. the hamlets
here and there containing the ohapels in
which the Beers gathered for worship,
relieved the monotony OF the fiat plains.
They are now either ~tenantlcss. save as
wild beasts invade them. or have been
levelled TO the ground by the torch applied
by British soldiers. Dcsolation reigns
everywhere supreme. showing even moro
direful in the towns than in the country.
Nearly all OF Johannesburg, three years
ago the largest city In South Africa. is
now without inhabitants. Ninety thousand
of the population have deserted IL. Only
a scant 10000 people remain in the once
prosperous city; and even they have diff
in keeping food in their mouths.
There IL scarcely an a~ble-bodied Boer
vet remaining In the broad territory Of
the two republics save those who have arms
in their hands and are still resisting the
Every able-bodied male Boer
10 years old and upward was mus
tered into the service. Many hundreds
Of them were killed or dies Of their wounds
or Of disease. In the long run thousands Of
them were taken prisoners and IN no other
way have the V~apluishsd prisoners been
~ widely scattered 10y their enemies
Cronje'- soldicr- we're landed ON ths Island
u ST Helena Ia April. 1900
Seven hundred men Of the BOer army,
In Portuguese last Africa, are
confined IN two porte 81 Portugal,
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the British government which h nov pay
ing the cost ~ their maintenance. Nearly
a uhouSand more pu-puerS were carried
"a" Indian ocean a. Bombay whence
were taken inland about Ia uuih-
to Ahm~inagar. They az" clp-rly rnn-
fined Ia a town which the Manchester
has callat A Dot. wat.I l'-a,
psst '-nt hulr.' Two other large partlra
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