Sessional Papers, Volume 68H.M. Stationery Office, 1902 - Great Britain |
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accommodation Aliwal North arrangements arrived assistance attendance August Barberton Belfast bell tents Bethulie Births Bloemfontein Boer Brandfort bronchitis Burgher Camps Department camp matron Camp Superintendent Cape Colony clothing Commandant Committee daily death rate DEATHS UNDER HEADS December disease distributed doctor Dutch Dysentery Enclosure enteric fever epidemic of measles erected families HEADS OF CAUSES HIGH COMMISSIONER honour hospital Influenza inmates Irene issued Johannesburg July Kimberley Klerksdorp Kroonstad Krugersdorp latrines LORD MILNER Mafeking Marasmus marquees measles meat medical comforts Medical Officer Merebank Middelburg Military Governor milk Month ending Natal November number of deaths nurses October Orange River Colony patients Pietersburg Pneumonia Pneumonia and Bronchitis Port Elizabeth Potchefstroom Pretoria Price probationers rations received Refugee Camps Relief RETURN for Burgher sanitary sent September SICK IN CAMP staff Standerton STATISTICAL RETURN TELEGRAM total number Transvaal Vereeniging Volksrust Vredefort Road Week ending Whooping Cough Winburg Women
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Page 103 - Arms and other munitions of War, from any one Port of this Colony, to any other Port of the said Colony ; Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority in me vested, I do hereby proclaim, and make known, that, until...
Page 123 - Everything has been done which the conditions of a state of war allowed to provide for the wellbeing of the women and children, but as Your Honour complains of that treatment, and must, therefore, be in a position to provide for them, I have the honour to inform you that all women and children at present in our camps who are willing to leave will be sent to the care of Your Honour, and I shall be happy to be informed where you desire that they should be handed over to you.
Page 119 - Do everything in your power to prevent the burghers laying down their arms. I will be compelled, if they do not listen to this, to confiscate everything movable or immovable, and also to burn their houses.
Page 117 - I have the honour to enclose for your information a copy of the despatch in question and of its enclosures.
Page 119 - Numerous complaints were made to me in the early part of this year by surrendered burghers, who stated that after they had laid down their arms, their families were ill-treated and their stock and property confiscated by order of the CommandantsGeneral of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. These acts appear to have been taken in consequence of the circular dated Roos, Senekal...
Page 62 - We have the honour to forward, for your lordship's information, a copy of...
Page 120 - It is not the case that every area has been cleared of the families of burghers. although this might be inferred from the despatch under discussion. On the contrary, very large numbers of women and children are still out, either in Boer camps or on their farms, and my Column Commanders have orders to leave them alone unless it is clear that they must starve if they are left out upon the veldt.
Page 120 - Finally, I indignantly and entirely deny the accusations of rough and cruel treatment to women and children who were being brought in from their farms to the camps. Hardships may have been sometimes inseparable from the process, but the Boer women in our hands themselves bear the most eloquent testimony to the kindness and consideration shown to them by our soldiers on all such occasions.