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...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...
...this date being chosen because it is the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birthday. Among the speakers will be Professor W. J. Ashley, who will respond to the toast of "The Empire," and Professor C. W. Colby who will speak on "Canada." Mr. Alleyne Ireland, author of "The Anglo-Boer Conflict; its History and Causes," has been asked to speak on "The United States...