Word: boer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Broekhuizen spoke of his personal experiences in the war and of its horrors. When war was declared every male Boer prepared himself for the struggle. The English poured into the country and the Boers attacked before all the troops has arrived. When the English retreated, after the battle of Dundee, Broekhuizen went into their camp and secured their secret papers. Among them were plans of fortresses and descriptions of Boer arms and equipment. At Magersfontein, after repulsing the English in seven hours fighting, the Boers attended to the wounded Englishmen and the prisoners before looking after their own wants. After...
...Union meeting tonight Dr. Hendrik Muller, Diplomatic Envoy from the Orange Free State, and the Reverend Herman van Broekhuizen of Pretoria, will speak on the war in South Africa. Both speakers are native Boers and have an intimate knowledge of South African affairs. The Reverend Herman van Broekhuizen was a former pastor at Pretoria and has been with the Boer army in the field. Dr. Muller has acted in the capacity of Special Envoy to the European capitals during the Boer's struggle for freedom and has recently come to this country on a diplomatic mission to the government. Both...
...Boer sympathizers are making arrangements to hold an open meeting. An invitation to speak has been extended to Hon. Bourke Cochran...
...answer to a brief and concrete question, probably the entire University would welcome a discussion or presentation of the Boer affair. Whether we should take active steps towards making the University an irritant to English public opinion is an entirely different thing. Some of us have been under the impression that the University has gained in prestige, because it has suc- ceeded fairly well in abstaining from head-long plunges into political questions, and that it has lost when it has attempted to mix in such matters as the Venezuelan affair of a few years ago. It may be that...
Somewhat more than a hundred thousand Boer women and children have been driven from their homes and have been herded together in camps like those established by General Weyler in Cuba. For a considerable time the families of those still in the field were given only half rations, with the idea that the men, seeing their wives and children in a starving condition, would be driven to submission. Even in England this policy was so bitterly denounced that it had finally to be abandoned. The policy of extermination, however, whether the result of deliberation or indifference, has been continued...