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Show j DELAEEY'S OWN WIFE. j The Victim of Persecution by the ' I Man He Released. I Amsterdam. April 7. The Boer bu- ! reau has published a report which was j sent last January by General Delarey i ; to Mr. Kruger, and which is counter- , signed by Ignatius Ferrerria, the act- j ing state attorney. 1 This report contains numerous stories of alleged barbarities and is supported by affidavits. Bside the general accusations ac-cusations of placir.g women as screens around the British camp, as a result of which practice many women are said to have been killed. General Delarey gives specific instances, with names and dates, of the killing of wounded prisoners and women. He complains that owing to Lord Methuen's persecution, persecu-tion, his own wife, with six children, has been wandering on the veldt for the past year. General Delarey complains com-plains also that his mother, aged 83 years, was driven into Klerksdorp, aft-ed aft-ed her cattle had been stolen and her house burned. Vandermerwe, late mining minister of the Rand, now fighting under Delarey, De-larey, appends a further list of atrocities atroci-ties committed on women and children, to the report of General Delarey. |