Three Years' War by Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
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was taken prisoner later on, and I have never been able to find out
where he was sent to. These documents are of great value, and ought to be published. I was on the farm of Blijdschap, between Harrismith and Bethlehem--my English friends, Generals Knox, Elliott and Paget, with their Colonels Rimington, Byng, Baker, etc., etc., will not have forgotten where Blijdschap is--when I received a letter from Lord Kitchener, enclosing his Proclamation of the 7th of August, 1901. This proclamation was as follows: "By his Excellency Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., General Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's forces in South Africa; High Commissioner of South Africa, and Administrator of the Transvaal, etc. "Whereas the former Orange Free State and South African Republic are annexed to His Majesty's possessions; "And whereas His Majesty's forces have now been for some considerable time in full possession of the Government seats of both the above-mentioned territories, with all their public offices and means of administration, as well as of the principal towns and the whole railway; "And whereas the great majority of burghers of the two late Republics (which number thirty-five thousand over and above those who have been killed in the war) are now prisoners of war, or have subjected themselves to His Majesty's Government, and are now |
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