SUFFERINGS OF BRITISH PRISONERS.
A FEARFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS. (Received 27, 1.50 a.m) London, April 26. Mr. .Mitchell, engineer of the Pretoria waterworks, who was expelled from the Transvaal, has arrived at Durban. He declared that the water ward was unfit for habitation. The majority of the prisoners sleep in the open. The tin hospital has no flooring, and 180 who are sick have no resident doctor in attendance on them. Disease is rampant, and the water used is black and muddy. The Transvaal Government refused a free gift of water, declining to furnish tanks for the purpose. Sympathisers at Pretoria have subscribed £3OOO to be spent on bedding comforts and food for the British wounded.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 94, 27 April 1900, Page 3
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116SUFFERINGS OF BRITISH PRISONERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 94, 27 April 1900, Page 3
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