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use this to buy food now for the children. Will soon be gone.
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—Knows nothing. Only 10 minutes given to come away. Put with four other families into
a railway van.
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—No friends to go to, but could manage with bare walls only at home. Begged me to go
to England to-morrow, and telegraph next day they might go.
One child in hospital with typhoid.
All are ailing.
Children’s clothes badly needed.
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— MRS. W. S.
—Fonteinspruit, District Thaba’nchu.
—Two children.
—Husband Ceylon.
—Arrived November 27.
—Compelled to come.
—A little money with her.
and 9.—Does not know.
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Boy had the measles in camp.
Only a little clothing.
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—MR. AND MRS. S.
—Poedamoor, Transvaal.
—All grown up and gone.
The S.’s are an old crippled couple, aged 75 and 65. He has a twisted leg from rheumatic fever,
and she has not walked for 10 years. Cannot even dress herself. They had already been taken from
their own farm to that of a neighbour, Mrs. G. When there Lord Methuen’s column came along one
Sunday and ordered off this helpless couple. They came at sunset one Sunday evening, put these
people into a waggon, where they sat all night, and were driven off at dawn next morning. 120 people
were swept up from that part, and of these only two were men—her husband (75) and a lad of 15.
At Vryburg they were kept three weeks, and then brought to Kimberley Camp in spite of
entreaties that they might stay in a Vryburg house. She was sore and bruised with the rough travelling.
Arrived in Kimberley cold, tired, and hungry. No tent for them ; no food. A poor woman, with 6 small
children in a bell tent, took in the helpless pair, and there they still are. A lady of the Dutch
Committee came and wrapped the old woman in a blanket, and gave her food. So they are 9 in the hot
little tent, with one bed, and the rest on the ground. They are miserable.
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—MRS. T. AND HUSBAND, AND FATHER-IN-LAW, MR. PIETER T.
—Verona, Bechuanaland.
—Three children, with whooping cough.
—Husband in Vryburg prison. Surrendered under first proclamation. Lived quietly. Two
months since arrested.
Mr. Pieter T. never fought. He is 72, and always a loyal resident of Bechuanaland. One day he
saw afar the flying column of the General who relieved Mafeking. Fearing for his daughter’s house a
mile distant, he went there to lock it up. Returning, he found troops in possession of his own house
and looting everything. They refused to let him in, and he saw they had found his cash-box, and
begged for it ; but they laughed, and divided it amongst themselves. His wife, aged 67, and daughter,
with two children, were in the garden. The soldiers put one child in the arms of each and drove them
in front of them to the next farm. They burnt the house. They inspanned the waggon, and putting the old
man at the head of the team to urge the oxen, set out for Vryburg. Then they took him on to Bulawayo,
and then back to Vryburg, where they put him in prison last May, and there he is to-day.
He has had no kind of trial, and no reason was ever given for this treatment.
One of his sons—long since married and a burgher of the Transvaal—is with Kruger in Holland,
and they wonder if that is why the father is punished.
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— H.G.T. AND WIFE.
—Lived at Ventersburg, Winburg.
—Wife and four children.
—In Camp since September. Wife came in October.
—Compelled. Is a Colonial, of English parentage, but had lived 10 years in Free State,
so a burgher, and bound to fight. Married a Dutch woman. Colonial brothers fighting the other
side. Went home from commando sick.
Very good-looking, clever man. Had just built a house of seven rooms, and had ploughed and
sowed, and had built up a little contract business. House burnt. Everything destroyed. Not a cent in
the world.
Baby of 16 months died in Camp.
Only boy of 4 emaciated.
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— MRS. F. DU T.
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—Ventershoek, Winburg.
—Two children.
—Husband in Camp, too.
—Arrived Nov. 27.
—Compelled to come ; no reason given.
—No means.
—House not burnt when left.
—Furniture broken.
—Could, if allowed, go to J. de Beer, Riebspruit.
One child ; bad eyes.
Very few clothes.
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—MRS. D. T. AND DAUGHTERS.
—Village of Petrusburg.
—Three children, unmarried.
—Father retired farmer, aged 58 ; never on commando, always in the municipality
helping poor, etc. Not in camp—whereabouts unknown.
The Tuesday before Feb. 1st Mr. D. T. went
home
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