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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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