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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7159, 9 February 1901, Page 4

FOR HEALTH AND STRENGTH Use Webber's YITADATIO. SEVENTY YEARS OF AGE, AND ADDED TEN YEARS TO HER LIFE. FRIENDS OF ALL AGES, THINK OF IT. VITADATIO IS ESTABLISHING A MOST MAGNANIMOUS, NOBLE RECORD. ALL THE COLONIES FEDERATINGIN THEIR PRAISE OF IT. A WEST AUSTRALIAN RECORD.

PRO-BOEB ACCUSATIONS. Oolooel Dun, who was military secretary to Sir George White,- and afterwards D.A..G. on Lord Robert's staff, has penned a full reply to Mr Stead's allegations of British brutality, and the synopsis of what he says has been published by Colonel Victor Milhvard, M, P, :—" We never destroy property, whether public or private, without adequace military reasons, Tina is not the case with the Boers. In Natal, at all events, an immense amount ot damage was done by the Boers while in occupation of our territory. With regard to the burning of bouses, it is not alleged in Mr Stead's pamphlet that any house was set on fira, but merely that woodwork was taKen and used for cooking purposes. In a country where no other fuel was procurable this was perfectly J legitimate, and even essential. Nothing J could better show the necessity of thus > obtaining wood than the fact that even the houses of our own people could not be spared. It completely refutes the insinuation of wanton destruction of the property of the enemy. The statements with regard to looting are absolutely untrue. Sheep, horses, cattle and carriages requisitioned by proper authority, and, , except when a farm had been .condemned for some act of treachery, a receipt was given stating the articles requisitioned -*»d their approximate value. The full v'-lup ot\, U"aQQ^l t as invariably paid on the presentation "S* |f Oeipts to the nearest disbursing authority, even 10