... understood that we are pursuing- policy of starvation. When General X - cleared the country north of Pretoria he allowed the women to take from their burnt homes av week's pro. visions. When the food was exhausted the starving people petitioned for help ...

... Beers treated him ?? We called at many farms and at every one men, women, and children stuns oit to see us-not one braggart centenee plassd their lips; men breoght ise reeling driinke women, with lgenusl fiegers-, shifted bandages, or weashed weunds, or ...

... of taxes, and the first Boer who said he was sorry that ho hadn't got his taxes to spare was flabbergasted at the sight of police seizing his trek oxen and wanton and auctioning the lot for the amount due. The ose's were horrified. It was the same as though ...