From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War

NING OF WARLIKE RUMOURS-A COMMERCIAL AND SOCIAL BOYCOTT-THE BOER SECRET S

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of the war on this frontier h

eason for this is, doubtless, that hostilities here would amount to civil war. There is the same mixed English and Dutch population on each side of the Orange river, uni

ts on the other side of the border, and Boer rifle

forbidding trade with the Republics is thus d

st mail brought a copy of the Bloemfontein 'Express,' with

end. You will assist us. Our God, who has

ertain that any rising of the Colonial Dutch would sen

as I have already put on record, the centre of the most disaffected district in the c

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's warlike n

oss the Orange river. Well-informed Dutch inhabitants assert that these are to be reinforced, and wi

y two Cape policemen wit

nation, declaring themselves sacrificed, as

s another, reported to be 450 strong, at

, which is the ferry over the Orange river on the way to Colesberg, with the intention of attacking Naauwpoort Junction, on the Capetown-Kimberley li

r more bitter than elsewhere. Several burghers here have sent their sons over the border, and promise that the

with single-storeyed houses, are dotted with strolling inhabitants, both Dutch and natives,

ogical students of the Dopper or strict Lutheran college h

amilies here into Aliwal North, on our side of the border, in imitation, perhaps, of President Ste

the offensive on this border, considering that such aggression would be impious, and that the Free State will restrict itself

heir feelings and intentions, which those who know them interpret as a bad sign, because, as a rule, they are inclined to irresponsible garrulity. A point in which Dutc

le contest-the local Bisley, in fact-which every man for miles around attends armed. Also the Afrikander Bon

ant of their police is known to be hiding hereabouts, and a warrant is out for his ar

asuto employed on the line here has returned to his tribe,

Sixty-six crammed truckloads of them came by one train. They had been treated with gre