NOT AS BAD AS THEY ARE PAINTED.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 15 February 1900, Page 6

NOT AS BAD AS THEY ARE PAINTED.

Lieutenant C. E. Kinahan. of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, gives an interes ing account of his experiences as a prisoner of war. Regarding his treatment by the Boers, he says • All you read about the Boers in England is absolutely untrue They are most kind to the wounded and pri-oners, lookinir after them as well as their own wounded, and anything they've got they will give you if you ask them, even if they deprive themselves We came up to Pretoria in first ela-s sleeping carriage*, and the way they treated us was most considerate, feeding us and giving us coffee every time we stopped. The day vse arrived we took up quarters on the racecourse, but we h^ve been moved int'> a five brick buiHing. with baths, electric light etc. 'i hey provide us with everything, from clothes down to toothbrushes. They also fetd us, and we are constantly getting presents of vegetables and cigars from private people. In fact, we hive everything we like except our liberty; for pome reason or other th< y won't, at present, give us pirole, and we are surrounded by There are close upon fifty officers in this building, and they have got any amount of wounded ones in different placea. They say they won't exchange the officers at any price.