The Exaggerating Miss Hobhouse.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 November 1901, Page 4

The Exaggerating Miss Hobhouse.

The “Daily News” states that the Government arrested and deported to England Miss Hobhouse, apparently for disobeying an injunction not to visit tbe concentration camps.

Miss Hobhouse is tbc lady whose highly coloured reports on the sufferings of the women and children in the concentration camps appeared a month or two ago at Home and led to the establishment by the Government of a committees of ladies to investigate the real state of things. Miss Hobhouse lectured at Home on her experiences, and gave full credit to the Government for giving her every facility for visiting the camps. Her statements were adopted by the ProBoer Daily News,” but they came in for a good deal of criticism and contradiction, notably from Doctor Jane Waterhouse, a South African lady who has a wide experience extended over many years of philanthropic work in that country. As an instance of how the British Government treats the refugees we may quote the following bill of fare of tbe women and children’s concentration camp at Simonstowu on August 30th: Breakfast Provost oat porridge, liver and bacon, beef steaks and chops, bread, butter, various jams, and coffee. Dinner—Pea soup, roast beef, mutton, Irish stew, baked potatoes, cabbage, sago pudding, and tinned pineapple. Tea-Tinned herrings, cold roast beef, bread and butter, various jams, and tea. The bill of fare reads more like that of a first-class hotel, than of a refugee camp. In this land of plenty many a family would be glad of just one half of the delicacies enjoyed by Boer captives.