TRIBUTE TO THE TROOPS BY GENERAL HUEBNER.
The Daily Te'egiaph nul>h*lic-s an inter ■view Hith Ijieuteiiccit general Count Huel> nor, who lias recently leturned from South Africa Tins distinguished incideitally speak of the blockhou*o .*>-aem .h the most effk ie.it system of 1,r...«,ing the wai to a do*e> that could po^ibly bo de\i*ed Of the concentration camp* ho say.* • — "What struck me niof-t wa- the < laborate and generous system devoted to the amelioration of the condition of the old men. vvomci, and children who found a refuse in the c c (amp" I cannot form any opinion a* to how far the i ee°**ities of warfare demanded the burning of farms, but from all I heard, I gather thnt military exigencies would have exacted the >-.uno kind of treatment by tho<-e in comuir.'id of aiiv civilised ru my. What was, in my opinion. *o exceptional, was the remark able humanity I have read many calumnies rglaiuig & WS. starvation, oj snsw«ift o&d
of the sufferings they had to undergo, but all I can my i* that a better fed, better set-up or more comfortable-looking class of men than the Boer prisoners J ha\e never seen."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2510, 23 April 1902, Page 45
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