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of them had spots of red on either cheeks, and their eyes
were blazing. The troops were systematically ‘looking
the place over’ (looting), and as they got quite through
with each house they burned it. As I stood looking, a
woman turned to me and pathetically exclaimed: ‘Oh,
how can you be so cruel!’ I sympathized with her and
explained that it was an order and had to be obeyed.
But all the same it was an extremely sad sight to see
the little homes burning and the rose bushes withering up
in the pretty garden, and the pathetic groups of homeless
and distressed women and little children weeping in abject
misery and despair among the smoking ruins as we rode
away."
The blackest chapter in England’s conquest of the
Boers was in the treatment of women and children in
concentration camps.
The London Daily News of November 9 said: “The
truth is that the death rate in the camps is incomparably
worse than anything Africa or Asia can show. There is
nothing to match it, even in the mortality figures of the
Indian famines, where cholera and other epidemics have
to be contended with.” Reyiiold’s Newspaper (London),
of October 20, spoke of the women and children “perish-
ing like dies from confinement, fever, bad food, pesti-
lential stinks and lack of nursing in these awful death
traps," with a death rate. of 383 out of every 1,000. And
the Sydney Bulletin said: “The authority granted by
Lord Roberts to Red Cross nurses to attend our camps
had been withdrawn on the ground that all necessary
measures have already been taken."
On December 16, 1913, the Boers in South Africa, in
the presence of immense throngs, dedicated a monument
which bears the following inscription:
“This monument is erected ‘by the Boers of South
Africa in memory of the 26,663 women and children who
died in the concentrating camps during the war 1900-
1 If
A similar fate was intended to be meted out by Eng-
land in attempting to starve Germany with a popula-
tion of 67,000,000. .
President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, in August,
1901, wrote to Kitchener as follows:
“As regards the 74,000 women and children which your
Excellency asserts are maintained in the camps, it seems
to me that your Excellency does not know in what a
cruel manner these poor defenseless people are dragged
from their homes by your Excellency’s troops whilst all
their possessions are destroyed by the troops. Your Ex-
ce11ency’s troops have not hesitated to turn their artillery
on these defenseless. women and children to capture them
when they were fleeing with their wa ons or alone, whilst
your troops knew that they were on y women and chil-
d,-en, as happened only recently at Gras-pan on the 6th
of June near Reitz, where a woman and children laager
was captured and retaken by us whilst your Excellency’s
troops took refuge behind the women; and when rem-
iorcements came they fired with artillery and small arms
on that woman laager. I can mention hundreds of cases
of this kind.” . . .
Lord Fisher, who for a time was in charge of the Brit-
ish Navy in the present war, at the Hague expressed the
apurdy English” views on wars. He said:
dfwaf should be made as hellish as possible. When you
ham: to wring a chicken’s neck, you’ don't give the chicken
intervals for rest and refreshment. When. the treatment
of captured submarine ‘crews was being discussed, Lord
Fisher, this “pure” Britisher, shocked the assembly by
barking: “Submarines? If I catch any in time of war,
I win string their crews up to my yard-arm". .
The policy of Britain has been, throughout its history,
one of merciless conquest. ' .
The only time it‘ failed was when America revolted in
1776. All an American has to do to know what England
was is to read the Declaration of Independence. America
woum now be a sparsely inhabited dependency of Eng-
hnd had England won that war and put into effect the
msasm-es she adopted against Ireland.
In Fighting America in 1776 and 1812 the redmeni were
treacherously employed, massacring women and children
without mercy, from the beginnuig to the end of each
war just as England employs the fiercest of the savages
of the hills of northern India in lighting graduates of
Heidelberg and Bonn on the battlefields of France today.
Let it not be thought that England has in any way
Chan ed It is only necessary to look ‘to Persia today
to segc gm independent nation being stripped of its lib-
rties and its patriots hung by the feet.and. their bodies
C .1 like butchered beeves by the emissaries of Russia.
:g;ncEng1and, who are dividing that country between
themselves.
It is well to recall these bloody milestones in the
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smug stories of her good intentions and her efforts in
behalf of Belgian independence; and our patriotic Ameri-
can press spreads these lies before its readers. And this
is a nation Washington fought to establish where men
gave up their lives in the cause of liberty, one of the bul-
warks of which was to be the freedom of the press-for
the freedom of a press that now kowtows to the original
oppressor.
Surely the press could put its freedom to no more sar-
donic purpose.
progress of the British empire, lest we forget that Eng-
land has grown to greatness as the pillager of the world.
America alone escaped her tyranny.
Her grotesque hypocrisy about the alleged disregard
by Germany of Belgian neutrality is an offense to Heaven.
England is the greatest violator of treaties the world has
ever known. A few of the treaties broken by England
include the “Capitulation of Limerick” (1691), the Treaty
of Utrecht (1713), a false copy of which was transmitted
to England’s allies, the Dutch; the Treaty of Versailles
(1783), by which American independence was secured,
was broken in part until Jay’s treaty of 1795; the Capitu-
lation of Naples (1799), the Treaty of Amiens (1802), the
Treaty of Ghent (1814), the Treaty of Berlin (1878), and
the Treaty of Washington. All were broken or disre-
garded in important particulars.
Space does not permit the detailing of all these various
perlidies. Indeed, an encyclopedia would be insufficient
to record the broken faiths and the terrible roll of those
who have been done to death that England might prosper
-broken on the wheel of British greed and infamy.
In control of the cables, Britain feeds our press with
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