Audit of repatriation accounts, 60,
218
Australia, importation of sheep
from, 116, 118
Earth, 285
Basutoland, 81, 93, 118, 123, 154,
177
Bethlehem District, 76, 81, 87, 88,
111, 129, 148,173,181, 182, 188,
204, 205
Bethulie District, 46, 69, 79, 99,
111
Bijwoner problem, 41-48, 209 ;
bijwoners as leaders and drivers,
137 ; their prejudice against
manual labour, 188, 193 ; com-
pensation of bijwoners, 254
Birmingham Daily Mail, 196,
199, 201
Birmingham Post, 33
Bismarck, Prince, views on com-
pensation for war losses, 244
Blockhouses, extension of block-
house lines, 16 ; effect of, 75
Bloemfontein District, 24, 26, 34,
52, 64, 79, 80, 88, 132, 189, 144,
171, 190
Boers, domesticity of, 22 ; as
stock-breeders, 95-96 ; as agri-
culturists, 97 ; their neglect of
animals, 156 ; their ignorance
and superstition, 172, 256 ;
veldt-burnmg, 170 ; homesteads,
9-10, 179 ; attitude towards
compensation, 258-260
Bombay Gazette, 125
Boshof District, 76, 81, 93, 111,
129, 151, 203
Botha, General Louis, telegram
to Lord Roberts, 5 ; a critic of
repatriation, 55, 195
Bothaville, 13, 17, 76
Brandfort, 80
British Refugee Aid Department,
68
Bryce, Right Hon. James, ' Ln-
pressions of South Africa,' 25,
68, 78
Butler, Sir William, 89
Cambridge Modern History, 32
Cape Colony, second invasion of,
13 ; cattle purchased in, 93,
219 ; prevalence of sheep-scab
in, 107 ; distress in, 201 ; gene-
rosity of, 201 ; enfranchise-
ment of rebels, 285
Cape Town, 93, 220
Ceylon, scepticism of prisoners in-
terned in, 123
Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph,
speech at Guildhall, 19 ; speech
at Bloemfontein, 64 ; military
prices, 84
Church, Dutch Reformed, evil
influence of, 64, 66
Churchill, Mr. Winston, draws an
idyllic picture, 226
Clearance policy, adoption of,
292
INDEX
293
15, 16 ; progress and effect of,
17-20
Compensation for war losses, 238-
260
Constabulary, South African, 116,
123, 229
Contemporary Review, 50, 119,
170, 258
Cosimo I., 82
Courtney, Lord, 23, 195
Daily Chronicle, 19, 33
Daily Mail, 50, 69
Daily News, 16
Defalcations, 131
Despagnet, 13, 225
Destitute, provision for, 208-209
Destruction of property, Lord
Roberts' proclamations con-
cerning, 3 ; property destroyed
by Boers in Natal, 4 ; General
Sherman's order quoted, 5 ;
destruction of farmhouses, 9^
10 ; destruction, unsystematic,
10 ; limitations defined, 11 ;
disliked by officers and men, 12
Devastation, 1-20, 31-32
De Wet, General Christian, inva-
sion of Cape Colony, 13 ; ' Three
Years' War,' 19, 21 ; concen-
tration, 23
Dewetsdorp, 17
Durban, 93, 147
East London, 93, 220
Echo, 56
Edenburg District, 183, 184, 205
Edinburgh Beview, 65, 67
Elliott, General, 19, 54
Empire Beview, 63, 73, 230
Farcy, 101 ; pseudo-farcy, 102
Fauresmith District, 80, 87, 108,
111, 123, 135, 142, 179, 191, 205,
258
Ficksburg District, 15, 80, 154,
182, 183, 191, 204, 205, 207
Fines, inflicted for damage done
to railway -line, 3 ; distinguished
from requisitions and contribu-
tions, 247
Fouriesburg, 15, 17, 77
Frankfort District, 17, 45, 77, 81,
143, 173, 184, 205
Frankfort Gazette, 2
Frederick the Great as repatria-
tor, 32
Fyffe's ' Modern Europe,' 248
Glanders, 100
Globe, 189, 209
Goold Adams, Sir Hamilton, 48,
70, 77, 88, 98, 118, 119, 121, 130
Guerilla warfare, 5, 6, 8, 14, 15,
145
Hague, conference at the, 2 ; rules
regarding devastation, 3 ; code
incomplete, 7 ; ' military neces-
sity,' 8
Hall's ' International Law,' 31
Harrismith District, 81, 87, 147,
183, 205
Heilbron District, 24, 45, 77, 79,
87, 88, 92, 108, 111, 121, 133,
146, 149, 157, 184, 204
Hobhouse, Miss Emily, allega-
tions refuted, 195-201
Hoopstad District, 80, 173, 182,
184
Hope Homes, 209
Horse-sickness, 104
Industries, projected promotion,
in Orange Kiver Colony, 209-
211
Irrigation, 74, 171, 190
Jacobsdal District, 81, 180, 182,
184, 200
Johannesburg, 62, 231
Jury, trial by, 228
Justice, Chief, of Orange Eiver
Colony, 228
Kimberley, 62, 135
Kitchener, Lord, succeeds Lord
Roberts, 13 ; letter addressed
to, by President Steyn, 14 ;
adopts clearance policy, 15 ;
anticipates reconciliation, 20 ;
commercial spirit of, 82
Kroonstad District, 69, 81, 88,
102, 104, 132, 154, 194
Ladybrand District, 2, 87, 114,
155, 191, 204, 207
Ladysmith, 96
294
AFTERMATH OF WAR
Land settlement, 70-74, 218, 235-
236
Lawrence, ' International Law,'
247
Lieber, definition of ' militai-y
necessity,' 8
Lindley District, 17, 76, 77, 80,
101, 108, 111, 121, 129, 138
Live-stock : Boer live-stock, 94 ;
effect of war on, 96 ; importa-
tion of, 115-118
Loans, 44, 149
Lorraine, 245
Louis XIV.. 31
Lung-sickness, 106
Magazine of Commerce, 74
Mallein, use of, to diagnose glan-
ders, 102
Manchester Guardian, 22, 56
Mange, 103
Marlborough, first Duke of, 32
Martial law, 10, 11
Mealies, destruction of, 16 ; sow-
ing of, 157, 172 ; purchase of,
178
Military occupation, 7, 224
Milner, Lord, despatches and
speeches : devastation, 10, 14 ;
progress of clearing country, 17 ;
preparations for repatriation,
34-35 ; bijwoner problem, 41-
42 ; personal accounts, 48, 200 ;
cost of reconstruction, 57 ; re-
patriation, 58 ; land settlement,
71 ; rajlway congestion, 79 ;
poverty of repatriation animals,
87 ; transfer from military to
repatriation, 83, 89 ; animal
diseases, 97 ; importation of
stock, 98 ; Boer surrender, 120 ;
return of prisoners of war, 29,
125 ; organization of repatria-
tion, 130 ; Boer patience, 146 ;
effect of ploughing on Boer
attitude, 167 ; the drought, 180 ;
plea for British settlers, 226 ;
weakness in British attitude to
Dutch, 231
Monthly Review, 50, 61, 78
Morning Leader, 4, 201
Morning Post, 64. 146, 150, 233,
234, 235
Musset, Alfred de, 21
Natal, destruction of property in,
4 ; repatriation of natives from,
163 ; amalgamation with Trans-
vaal possibly a hindrance to
federation, 234-235
Natal Mercury, 172, 202
National Ecview, 233
Natives : Native refugee camps,
24-29 ; reasons for formation
of camps, 25 ; method adopted
in, 25 ; Native Eefugee Depart-
ment, 26 ; concentration of
native camps on to the railway,
26 ; question of rations, 26 ;
dignity of labour, 26 ; com-
pound system, 27 ; cultivation,
28 ; advantages of .system, 29 ;
depletion of native camps, 162 ;
repatriation of natives, 158-
164 ; natives' share in the war,
158 ; effect of war on native
mind, 158 ; material effect of
war on native, 25, 159 ; un-
satisfactory position of farm
native before the war, 160 ;
strained feeling between Boers
and natives, 161 ; rations sup-
plied to natives, 163 ; natives
of Orange Eiver Colony funda-
mentally agriculturists, 163 ;
repatriation of natives from
Natal, 163 : native ' Micawbers,'
164 ; cost of native repatriation,
164 ; distress among native
population, 192 ; native destitu-
tion, 202 ; thefts by natives,
223 ; politically least but nu-
merically greatest, 25, 227 ;
compensation paid to natives
for war losses, 243, 281 ; native
attitude towards compensation,
243 ; free grants to destitute
natives, 273
New Age, 13
' New Era in South Africa, The,'
34, 42, 64, 95, 124, 144, 181
Nineteenth Century and After,
1,4,5
Northern Whig, 76, 81, 149
Oppenheim, ' International Law,'
21, 224, 225
Orange River Colony, geographi-
cal position of, 62 ; climate, 74 ;
INDEX
295
chaos wi'ought by war in, 75-
77 ; seasons, 78, 172 : internal
communication. 78-79 ; area,
12, 80 ; rainfall, 168 ; drought
of 1903, 181-184, 190-192;
effect cf drought, 193 ; break
in drought, 203
Pahitinate, devastation of, 31
Parijs, 69, 205
Philiipolis, 80
Pilot, 131
Ploughing? schemes in different
district?, 152-158
Pohtics : Pieconciliation between
British and Dutch, 20 ; repa-
triation non-pohtical, 49 ; effect
of war on Boer mind, 53-54 ;
peace blunder, 63 ; breach
between guerillas and 'hands-
oppers,' 63-65 ; preferential
treatment accorded to National
Scouts, 66, 67 ; land settlement,
71-73 ; political classification of
prisoners of war, 123, 124 ; irre-
concilables, 125, 144-145 ; com-
posite population, 145 - 147 ;
irreconcilable misinterpretation
of Article X, and the repatria-
tion scheme, 148-151 ; feeling
between Boers and natives,
161 ; a campaign of misrepre-
sentation, 195-196, 201-202;
political effect of repatriation,
224-226 ; the political problem
in the Orange River Colony,
227-235 ; political effect of com-
pensation for war losses, 258-
260
Port Ehzabeth, 86, 93, 147
Press, continental, slanders in
connection with Boer War, 1,
2 ; slanders refuted, 2
Pretoria, 35, 120
Prinsloo, General, surrender of,
14
Prisoners of war, number liberated
by Vereeniging terms, 29 ;
general release of, 123 ; scepti-
cism of, 123 ; classification for
return, 124 ; irreconcilables,
125 ; tabular statement of
return, 126-127
Protected burghers, 23, 250-252
Quarterly Review, 57
Racialism not the dominant fac-
tor in South African politics,
283
Railways, proclamation re damage
to, 3 ; a dividing-line to clear-
ance work, 17 ; removal of
native refugee camps to, 26 ;
railway system of Orange Eiver
Colony, 78 ; railway concession
granted to repatriation, 79 ;
distances from railway, 80, 135 ;
sufferings of animals in transit,
99 ; repatriation depots on rail-
way, 132 ; congestion on, 147 ;
strain relaxed, 151 ; allotment
of trucks, 220
Band Daily Mail, 55
Rations for animals, 134 ; for man,
143
Receipts, military, payment of,
249
Red-tape, 82, 130, 213
Refugee camps, reasons for for-
mation of, 22 ; native refugee
camps, 24-29 ; depletion of re-
fugee camps, 138-143
Eeitz, 17, 197, 198
Relief Department, establishment
and work of, 184-211 ; criticism
of, 212-224
Relief Works Department, 68 69 ;
reUef camps, 187, 188
Repatriation, historical instances
of, 32 ; Lord Milner's despatch
regarding necessity of, 34-35 ;
creation of Repatriation Depart-
ment, 35-36 ; Articles II. and
X. of the Terms of Vereeniging,
37 ; free grant, 39 ; loan fund,
44 ; promissory notes, 46 ; per-
sonal accounts, 47, 199 ; district
commissions, 48-52, 58, 130-
131; Central Board, 52-53;
criticism, 55-61, 212-224 ; system
of accounts, 59-61, 263-266 ;
natural difficulties and chaos
wrought by war, 74-77 ; political
difficulties, 53-54, 63-65, 125,
144-151, 161, 195-196. 201-202;
transport difficulties, 78-81, 138 ;
railway rates, 79 ; sources of
supply, 81 ; transfer of trans-
296
AFTERMATH OF WAE
port, etc., from military to repa-
triation, 82-92 ; employment of
cattle-dealers, 92-93, 219 ; coast
agencies, 93 ; animal diseases
and their treatment, 94-118
preparatory work, 119 ; organ
ization, 130-132 ; defalcations
131 ; ploughing, 152-157 ; repa
triation of natives, 158-164
summary of work done and
seed sown up to December
1902, 164-167 ; cattle depots
174 ; list of stores, 174-177
seeds, 178; restoration of home-
steads, 178 ; building material
180; close of repatriation and
institution of relief, 184-186,
269
' Rimington, With,' 11
Einderpest, 105
Eisley's ' Law of War,' 8, 81, 247
Ritchie, Right Hon. C. T., speech
on repatriation finance, 39, 40
Roberts, Earl, proclamation for-
bidding destruction of property,
3, 4, 5, 13 ; guerilla tactics, 5;
damage to railway - line, 3-5 ;
' lay waste,' 8 ; succeeded by
Viscount Kitchener, 13 ; pro-
tection proclamations, 149, 250
Rouxville District, 111, 191
Rundle, Sir Leslie, 15
Salisbury, Marquis of, 13
Sanna's Post, 80
Saturday Beview, 19, 22, 24
Scab, 107
Selborne, Earl of, 116
Senekal District, 7, 17, 77, 80, 143,
147, 157, 180, 184, 257
Sheep, slaughter of, 16 ; scab
amongst, 107 ; purchase of, 219,
221
Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 84, 64,
181
Sherman, General, 5, 240
Simonstown, 124
Smaldeel, 79
South Africa, 152, 165, 197
South African Netvs, 192, 202
Sjjectator, 235
Sprin-,-fontein, 79, 88, 104
Standard, ^i't, 63, 202
Stellenbosch, 86
Steyn, President, letter to Lord
Kitchener, 14
Storekeepers, 128-130
' Subaltern's Letters to his Wife,
A,' 10, 76, 78, 158, 181, 257
Subjugation of Boer Republics,
225 ; historical instances of,
225 ; does not affect private
property, 239-240
Surrender of Free State Com-
mandos, 54, 121
Thaba N'Chu District, 69, 72, 79,
164, 184, 191
Times, The, % 20, 23, 33, 39, 43,
53, 69, 72, 76, 127, 171, 195, 200,
226, 227, 228, 230, 231, 258
Transvaal Repatriation, 29, 70,
92, 108, 115, 143
Umbilo, 124
United States, 116
Vendome, Due de, 32
Ventersburg, 17
Volunteer Repatriation Depart-
ment, 66-67
Vrede District, 17, 77, 81, 87, 108,
205
Vredefort District, 49, 77, 99, 104,
111, 118, 156, 191
Walker, ' International Law,' 240,
247
War Stores Commission, 89-91,
223
Wellington, First Duke of, 11
Wepener District, 182, 191, 203,
205
Western Morning News, 198
Willeocks, Sir W., 75
Wilson, Mr. H. F., 163
Winburg District, 2, 46, 69, 79, 92,
93, 111, 150, 152, 153, 182, 183,
191
Wolvehoek, 79
Zastron, 208, 207
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