instigate their fellow citizens to persist in their hopeless
resistance against His Majesty's Government;

"I, Horatio Herbert 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 in South Africa, on behalf of His Majesty's
Government, proclaim and make known as follows:

"All Commandants, Veldtcornets and leaders of armed bands--being
burghers of the late Republics--still resisting His Majesty's
forces in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal, or in any part
of His Majesty's South African possessions, and all members of the
Government of the late Orange Free State and of the late South
African Republic, shall, unless they surrender before the 15th
September of this year, be banished for ever from South Africa; and
the cost of maintaining the families of such burghers shall be
recoverable from, and become a charge on, their properties, whether
landed or movable, in both Colonies.

"GOD SAVE THE KING.

"Given under my hand at Pretoria, the seventh day of August, 1901.

"KITCHENER, GENERAL,
_High Commissioner of South Africa._"

I answered Lord Kitchener very carefully in the following words:--

"EXCELLENCY,--