LOOTING IN JOHANNESBURG.

Otago Witness, Issue 2398, 15 February 1900, Page 44

LOOTING IN JOHANNESBURG.

In a letter written from Johannesburg, published in the Bulawayo Chronicle, the writer says: — "I wish you could see this place as it is now, and compare it with when you saw it last; what a change; there are scarcely 2000 people all told. Robbery is the order of the day. ~Yo\\ ©an see old Boers and their wives with gangs of Kaffirs, taking handsome suites of furniture, pier-glasses, brass bedsteads, etc., away. It is a dastardly shame how bare-faced robbery takes place in broad daylight with not tlie slightest effort made to stop it. The police say it is no good running people in, as the Lanctdrostg will not convict, saying that the owners should be in town looking after their goods and chattels. In the stores the same feeling , prevails ; if you want anything they (storekeepers) toll you to take it, as if you pay them the officials commandeer the money from. t^em. One firm had. §XOQH fiomman-^

deered ; it was no good kicking, as we should have been arrested on a charge of high treason. The hospital, exchange, and churches are full of wounded and dying men, as are also all the large buildings in Pretoria, There is no mistake the British are giving themi ' socks-.* Mafeking has to account for about 80(1 mem killed and wounded. There must be some brave men there, and good luck to them. Burgers is the only man from the East Band who is alive, all the rest have been killed."