THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS
T!li 2 "Daily ;News" of November 9, exhausf ively surveyed "the concentration camps in South Africa with the following, conclusion: "The truth is the death-rate in thi camps is incomparably worse than anyth'ng Africa or Asia can show. There is nothing- to match it even in the mortality figures of the Indian famines, where cholera and other euidemics have to be contended with." Statistics are-produced in proof of this assertion. The Government advertisement for teachers for the camp children, setting forth the term of employement will be one year, is prominently displayed as evidence the authorities have no intention of ending* "the wholesale destruction of human life." - - . ■ . The "Daily News" urges all humane men to insist upon the camps being broken up without waiting for official- reports. It insists that the peuple should be distributed among their friends or 'removed to districts where a fresh attempt can be made under competent organisation, and with some regard to the preservation of life— "that or extermination and an eternal stain on the name ofl England.""
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Wanganui Chronicle, 4 December 1901, Page 2
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176THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS Wanganui Chronicle, 4 December 1901, Page 2
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