CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
[BT TZLI'iEAPH FEOM AUCKLAND.] San Fbancisoo. November 14. The London Daily News of November Oth exhaustively surveyed the concentration camp* in South Africa, with the following conclusion “The truth is that the death rate in the .camp* is incomparably worse than anything Africa or Asia can show. There is nothing to match it even in the mortality figures of the Indian famines, where cholera and other epidemics have to be contended with.” Statistics are produced in proof of this assertion. A Government advertisement for teachers tor the camp children, setting forth that “the term of employment will be one year,” is prominently displayed as evidence that the authorities have no intention of ending the wholesale destruction of human life.
The Daily Neics urges all humane men to insist upon the camps being broken up without waiting for official reports. It insists that the people should be distributed among their friends, or removed to districts where a fresh attempt can be made under competent organisation, and with some regard to the preservation of life. This extermination is, the paper says, an eternal stain on the name of England.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 12019, 4 December 1901, Page 3
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189CONCENTRATION CAMPS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 12019, 4 December 1901, Page 3
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