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Title: Besieged by the Boers; a diary of life and events in Kimberley during the siege
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ashe, E. Oliver, (Evelyn Oliver)
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Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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out a few minutes before I didand was right up in the firing line while thefire was still very hot, but he came out all right.Some well-known men were hit in this fight.One poor chap (he is one of the three men whorent my old house) got the middle part of hislower jaw smashed into splinters. It is a hor-rid wound, not dangerous to life, but I amafraid the deformity will be very bad. Most of the Boer prisoners were of the verylowest class, and came from Bloemhof, a littleTransvaal town not far from Christiana, whereI have been several times. Two, at least, ofthem came from Barkley West, where they hadbeen working in some relief work that the gov-ernment had started for the benefit of poorwhites. Some of these prisoners had FreeState newspapers on them which gave us laternews than any we had been able to get. These papers printed a letter from the com-mandant who was bombarding Kimberley inwdiich he said he had aimed his shells at themiddle of the town to **do as much damage aspossible.
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RHODES COMPLIMENTS 55 This, like firing on ambulances, is directlyagainst the Geneva Convention, which stipulatesthat bombardment should as far as possible beconfined to fortifications and not include pri-vate buildings. But the Boer cares for noneof these things; he is little better than an igno-rant savage, and knows and cares nothing forconventions. On the whole, this was a good days work,though we lost rather heavily. It showed, how-ever, that the Boers were not always invincible,even behind their earthworks. The next day a doctor came in from theBoers for chloroform and brandy. He was aScotchman, and said he had been compelled togo with the Boers, which is hardly believable,as he could have stayed in Kimberley if he hadwanted to when he was here. One of our menknew of him and said he was the biggest scoun-drel in the medical profession, but he got hischloroform and brandy. On the twenty-eighth we had another fight.When I came in to lunch I found a note fromthe captain of the ambu

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