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Show f " ' '" 1 Persons, Places and Things U . U HORRORS OF CAMP LIFE. A. cable message from London says: Miss Hobhouse and a lady companion have "been arrested in South Africa and presumably deported. The reason for the deportation of Miss Emily Hob-house Hob-house from South Africa will not be at all a matter of mystery to those who have closely followed the conduct of the Boer war. Miss Hobhouse went to South Africa last January as the representative ot a charitable committee formed In England Eng-land for the purpose of raising and administering a fund for the relief of distress among the South African women and children. She began her work at the Bloemfontein caup on January 26, and afterward visited the camps at Norval's Point, Aliwal North, Springfontein, Kimberley, Mafeking, returning to Bloemfontein on April 22. Since then she has spent much of her time distributing supplies to the re-concentrados re-concentrados and in some fashion ameliorating their hard condition. The reports she wrote after these visits first brought home to the stay-at-home Britons the horrors of these so-called ' refuge camps. Such was the effect of these revelations that thousands Joined In petitions to the government Xo check the growth of the conditions described. Speaking of the terrors of camp life she says: "It presses hardest hard-est on the children. They droop In the terrible heat, and with the insufficient, insuf-ficient, unsuitable, food, whatever you do, and whatever the authorities, do It! Jn" .' MISS HOBHOUSE. and they are, I believe, doing their best with very limited means it is 11 only a miserable patch upon a great ill. . Thousands, physically unfit, are placed in conditions of life which they have not the strength to endure. There are cases, too, in which whol families are scattered, they don't know where. "At one camp that I visited thera were several women In disgrace; mothers who had been separated from their children and had tried to escapa to rejoin them. They were treated with unusual harshness. The deaths In these camps are out of all proportion pro-portion to the normal, fifteen dying ' hi one day while I was at Kimberley." |