BOER GRIEVANCES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11511, 18 February 1903, Page 8

BOER GRIEVANCES.

Much bitterness was exhibited by sotlM* of the speakers at a meeting of Pretoria burghers on January 6th, Mr Schalk Bur* ger presiding.—Mrßengers, who spoke it i a sarcastic tone, called the repatriation of i the burghers a fiasco, and said that if the £3,000,000 granted for that purpose went > a free gift the burghers must be allowed i to spend tho money as they liked.—Com-, mandant Lombard, in an excited speech,, i demanded the recognition of "blue-bocks."—' General Botha expressed his agreement with! t a proposal of Lord Milner's, published in one of the Blue Books, that all war losses , 1 should be calculated pro rata, and compensation be paid out of the £3,000,000. A general amnesty hod been promised by tbt "j ,'.* terms of peace to'all tlie burghers on thf' ■ ■-"* veldt with the exception of three men. Mi ' Schalk Burger called several minor speakers- -"J to order, remarking that they must be care* vi ful of their language. t£> During the proceedings some one mode a {ft sneering remark about "hands-uppers,"' "\$ wliereupon General De la Rey jumped up '?M and said they represented the Afrikander '*« nation and must work for the whole nation and not for a section. The meet- > - I ing was very long, everybody speaking % who had any desire to do so. The gather- *\ ing is described as the first represent*- -J tive meeting of Dutch since the war. ■ '")