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Show BOTHA'S PROCLAMATION Paris. The text of General Botha's counter pr clamation to Lord Kitchener's Kitchen-er's recent proclamation has reached here. . It was issued on Sept. 15. It declares: "Whereas, No official of the Orange Free State or the Transvaal republic, and no general, commander or burgher intends to obey Lord Kitchener's proclamation proc-lamation or trouble with it, and "Whereas, The proclamation contains con-tains falsehoods habitual to the English; Eng-lish; and "Whereas, Lord Kitchener's proclamation procla-mation has strengthened the determination determi-nation of all burghers to resist to the end: now, "Therefore, I, Louis Botha, commandant-general of the Republican forces, with the consent of the governments, officers and burghers of both republics, repub-lics, proclaim Lord Kitchener, his staff and the officers. and soldiers serving serv-ing under his orders, fighting us now, to be outlaws in South Africa, and all officers and burghers in the two republics and in Cape Colony are ordered or-dered to shoot every armed Englishman English-man whom they meet." |