Footnote 237: Cd. 547.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 238: Cd. 547.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 239: Ibid.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 240: January 12th, 1901. Cd. 547.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 241: Cd. 547.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 242: Cd. 663. See also the text of the circular issued on December 2nd, 1900, by Louis Botha, as Commandant-General of the Boer forces, to all military officers, landdrosts, etc., giving specific instructions for the punishment of surrendered burghers who refused to join the commandos when called upon, and for the evasion of the neutrality oath.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 243: Cd. 663.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 244: Cd. 547.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 245: Cd. 663. It was at this time that the utterly unjustifiable and brutal murder of the coloured man, Esau, took place in the invasion of the Calvinia district of the Cape Colony. His sole offence was his known loyalty to the British Government. "He was flogged on January 15th, 1901, and kept in gaol till February 5th, when he was flogged through the streets and shot outside the village by a Boer named Strydom, who stated that he acted according to orders." Cd. 547.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 246: Cd. 547.[Back to Main Text]