Footnote 31: London Weekly Times, February 23, 1900. In default of official reports, the author has depended chiefly upon the Times correspondence, and upon "Four Months Besieged," by Mr. H. H. Pearse, correspondent of the Daily News.[(Back)]
Footnote 32: "The Cavalry Rush to Kimberley," by Captain Cecil Boyle, additional aide to General French. The Nineteenth Century, June, 1900, p. 907.[(Back)]
Footnote 33: Lord Roberts' telegram.[(Back)]
Footnote 34: London Weekly Times, March 23, 1900, p. ii.; also February 23, p. 114.[(Back)]
Footnote 35: "The Cavalry Rush to Kimberley," p. 909.[(Back)]
Footnote 36: See summary of a letter of Michael Davitt, whose Boer sympathies are well known, from Kroonstadt, March 31, to the Dublin Freeman's Journal, given in the London Times, June 25, 1900.[(Back)]
Footnote 37: "The Cavalry Rush to Kimberley," p. 210.[(Back)]
Footnote 38: London Weekly Times, March 23 and April 6 (p. iii). In the absence of official reports other than telegraphic summaries, the author has based his account chiefly on this authority.[(Back)]
Footnote 39: Bullet's telegram from Ladysmith, March 2.[(Back)]
Footnote 40: London Weekly Times, March 30, 1900.[(Back)]