. South Africa and the Transvaal War. Plan ok the Battle of Belmont. into a trench as quickly as possible. His family are left in igno-rance as to his fate, and their only conclusion is to assume thathe is dead. But Mr. Krugers methods and his ruthless militaryoligarchy were disapproved even by his own countrymen, and moreespecially by his own countrywomen, who now began to mistrustthe continual story of Boer victory, and asked pitifully for per-mission themselves to seek for fathers, sons, and brothers fromwhom they never heard. In some cases many of these were lyingnot an inch below their fe
. South Africa and the Transvaal War. Plan ok the Battle of Belmont. into a trench as quickly as possible. His family are left in igno-rance as to his fate, and their only conclusion is to assume thathe is dead. But Mr. Krugers methods and his ruthless militaryoligarchy were disapproved even by his own countrymen, and moreespecially by his own countrywomen, who now began to mistrustthe continual story of Boer victory, and asked pitifully for per-mission themselves to seek for fathers, sons, and brothers fromwhom they never heard. In some cases many of these were lyingnot an inch below their feet, for a British search party came upon aportion of the veldt that was literally mosaicked with dead Dutch-men whose bodies were scarcely more than peppered with earth !Mr. Knight, the correspondent of the Morning Post, who was a 90. (f) Q <DO K W 3 < WKO P U < h <h HiOo 2 h O§_)wm wh < tu XH The Battle of Belmont general favourite, was wounded in a singularly treacherous was in the firing line of the Northamptons, who were thenattacking the Boers. Some of the enemy suddenly emerged frombehind rocks and displayed a handkerchief attached to a rifle. Onthis sign Mr. Knight with two others rose, and all three wereinstantly shot with Dum-Dum bullets. Mr. Knights sufferingswere great, and the arm was amputated. The use of Dum-Dumbullets had been proscribed, as, after hitting the mark, they expandand cause wounds as large as a five-shilling piece. The Boers,besides using them on occasion, so manoeuvred the Mauser bulletsthat they could act in identical fashion. Another treacherous Boerdevice was the wearing of the red cross upon their sleeves—an actionon a par with the display of the white flag—for convenience , it must always be remembered
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