BRUTAL BOERS SJAMBOK A WHITE WOMAN.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 December 1901, Page 4

BRUTAL BOERS SJAMBOK A WHITE WOMAN.

The History of the two years of war is spotted througoi.it with Boer murders. Under the white flag and otherwise, and instances of vile treatment of the natives. Hero is the latest in this latter connection front the London Times :—■

A well informed correspondent writes to us from the Sutherland district, Capo Colony : On July sth, 1901, a party of Boers, among them nine local rebels, went to a farm, Zand Kraal, about thirty miles north-east of Sutherland Town, where Mr Perlman keeps a trading store, and looted the place entirely. From authentic report received by the Commandant, Captain H, Scott Harden, C,DiF., it has neon ascertained that these rebels, after taking everything they could frohl tile store dnd smashing all they colild not remove, sjambohed (a sjambok is a whip made of hide) Mr and Mrs Perlman most brutally and flogged the na» tives,

One unfortunate native girl who was about to be confined, was thrashed so unmercifully that she gave birth to a child under the lash. The behaviour of these rebels was most cruel and barbarous. Marais, a Boer of .the late Orange Free State, was the leader of this party. After finishing their infamous work on this farm they went to a farm, Baviaan’s Drift, a short distance from Zand Kraal, Where they were entertained by the owner, and sjamboked another girl most shamefully. The reason these barbarians give for thrashing the native men and women is that they impart information against them to the British. This appears to be the course adopted by the commandos now raiding this colony. The above cruelty was carried out by men who have all their lives been in touch with civilisation, and have received some education, one of the worst of them being enlightened enough to have held the position of a field cornet in this district under the British Government, and who joined the rebels about January last. On a British patrol going out on the 16lh to bring in Mr and Mrs Perlman, a party of Boers, said to bo about fifty in number, held up a white flag to entice our men from the kopjes whore they had taken cover, after four of their number had been wounded, but fortunately their treachery was discovered and our men drove them off.