THE BOERS AND OUR WOUNDED.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 September 1901, Page 3

THE BOERS AND OUR WOUNDED.

The Bishop of Chichester’s son, who is a Yeoman, and was dangerously wounded at Berklaagte, has sent home a letter concerning the Boer treatment of the wounded after that engagement. In a letter to the “Times” the bishop gives the following extract from his son’s story:— “An officer dashed up with the order, ‘Betire at all costs, and leave the wounded and we were left lying where we were. No sooner had our men left the hill than about twenty Boers dashed up, and a more heterogenous collection of scoundrels I have never seen. They came up to us and proceeded to strip us of everything we had,”

It appears that the*Boers even tried to pull the ring from the finger of his wounded arm. He adds! —

“They then went round the other side of the hill to windward and lit a veldt fire, with the double object of covering their own retreat and burning us out, and, and we lay and watched the fire approaching us with a roar, with the cheering prospect in our mines of being roasted alive in a few minutes’ time; however, just at the right moment, when the fire had got within forty yards of us, a troop of our men dashed through it, and carried us to a place of safety beyond.” “Comment on such conduct,” remarks the bishop, “is unnecessary.”