Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900

33

Lord Roberts' telegram.

34

London Weekly Times, March 23, 1900, p. ii.; also February 23, p. 114.

35

"The Cavalry Rush to Kimberley," p. 909.

36

See summary of a letter of Michael Davitt, whose Boer sympathies are well known, from Kroonstadt, March 31, to the Dublin Freeman's Journal, given in the London Times, June 25, 1900.

37

"The Cavalry Rush to Kimberley," p. 210.

38

London Weekly Times, March 23 and April 6 (p. iii). In the absence of official reports other than telegraphic summaries, the author has based his account chiefly on this authority.

39

Bullet's telegram from Ladysmith, March 2.

40

London Weekly Times, March 30, 1900.

41

These figures are taken from a speech made by the Under Secretary of War in Parliament, June 29, 1900.