Footnote 267: What was even worse than such declarations of sympathy with the Boers was the manifestation of hostility against the loyalist population of South Africa. E.g. Sir William Harcourt (in a letter in The Times of December 17th, 1900), wrote: "I sometimes think that those bellicose gentlemen—especially those who do not fight—must occasionally cast longing, lingering looks towards the times before they were subsidised (sic) by the authors of the Raid to bring about the position in which they now find themselves."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 268: September 26th, 1901. See Cd. 820 for report of this action.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 269: Letter to Miss Milner, November 11th, 1901. See p. [416].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 270: The facts are stated in a letter published in The Times on March 10th, 1902.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 271: See also note, p. [399] (Extract from the Vossische Zeitung). The baseless and malevolent allegations of specific acts of inhumanity or outrage on the part of British soldiers, circulated by Boer sympathisers in England and on the continent of Europe, have been passed over in silence. For an exposure of these calumnies the reader is referred to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The War in South Africa (Smith, Elder). A record of the manner in which they were repudiated by the Boer population in South Africa will be found in Cd. 1, 163, pp. 99, 106-111, 113-121. Among those who protested were German subjects, and Germans who had become British subjects, resident in South Africa. Perhaps the most significant of all these protests is the resolution passed unanimously by the members of the Natal House of Assembly, all standing: "That this House desires to repudiate the false charges of inhumanity brought against His Majesty's Army by a section of the inhabitants of the continent of Europe and certain disloyal subjects within the British Isles, and this House places on record its deliberate conviction that the war in South Africa has been prosecuted by His Majesty's Government and Army upon lines of humanity and consideration for the enemy unparalleled in the history of nations."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 272: This telegram is printed in Cd. 528.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 273: For the nature of these "Middelburg terms," see forward in note [2] on p. [568].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 274: Sir Richard Solomon was appointed legal adviser to the new Transvaal Administration.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 275: Cd. 903.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 276: See p. [431].[Back to Main Text]