VILE CALUMNIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7385, 11 February 1902, Page 2

VILE CALUMNIES.

A FOREIGN OPINION ON THE ' SUBJECT.

Beceived February 11, 0.80 a.m.

London, February 10. General Huebner, son of the late Baron Huebner, after some months spent in South Afrioa, deolares that the calumnies regarding the troops and the concentration camps are infamous, and that the whole conduct of the British oivil and military authorities has been and is extremely and exceptionally humane.

Colonel Farmer's Guard in Bloem. fontein oaptured Field-Ooraet Oom. brink and nine of Commandant Dv Toit'a men. Dv Toit died of wounds. Speaking at the enthusiastic mass meeting held at Capetown for tho purpose of repelling tho calumnies on the British troops, Mr Thomas Graham, Attorney-General, in the course of his apeeob, denounced Sir Henry Oampbell-Bannerman's barbarous method of speech, declaring it

unfair to prosecute for sedition in South Africa while viler treason in England was allowed to go scot free.

PRO-BOER UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR CENSURED.

Received February 11, 9.54 a.m.

Sydney, February 11.

The University Senate, after considering the speeches and letters of Professor Wood in connection with tbe Anti-War League, passed a resolution declaring that Professor Wood's utterances were unworthy of a professor of history, whose speech ought to be marked by strict impartiality and freedom from passion, and that such remarks as his were highly reprehensible, as tending to encourage the enemies of the country and hinder the establishment of a just and honorable peace, and also to impair the value of his teaching in the University. About a dozen of the New Zealand contingent were missing when the Surrey sailed. Two have applied to the local authorities to send them on by tbe transport conveying the local contini gent. , *