TOMMY ATKINS AND THE BOER WOMEN.
Mr Bennet Burleigh writes to the Daily Tolegraph of the Boer women who were sent back to the Boer lines by Lord Roberts:—They (the Boer women) were beribboned and bedecked, he sayswiih the Transvaal colours, the Vierkleur. As they approached camps and stations they produced and waved hundreds 'of Boer flags, from merest rags to gaudy si'k standards, emblazoned with dedications and mottoes. Others there were that sported German. French, and Dutch flags. They shrilly sang iheir Volkslieds, or demonstrated like the Egyptian and Arab women in a guinea-fowl cackle. The Tommies flocked to see them pass, good-humour-edly cheered them, gave them water, coffee, food, and helped the little ones to stretch their legs upon the platforms. Not a rude word was addressed by the soldiers to one of the emigrants, and the troops readily did all in their power to add to the comfort of tho women and children. The only caustic remark I overheard was made by a Tommy to a Boer lady who was standing up, excitedly waving a large banner and chanting the while: "That's right missus; you hold it up and show your pluck, bus try and get your old man to wave it a spell,"
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 8 January 1901, Page 4
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207TOMMY ATKINS AND THE BOER WOMEN. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 8 January 1901, Page 4
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