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Show BOER "WHELPS AND DAMS." Irish World: The world is at last awakening to the realization of the atrocious murders committed in South Africa by and under the authority of England. The ost damning of the many dan.iiing indictments which could be drawn against that country is furnished by the official returns of the death rate In Kitchener's murder camps. Let us examine the latest of these returns that for September. What will such an examination show? Our answer to this question, reader, will tax your credulity. What would you think if we should assert that if the death rate in the English army in South Africa, which is 00,000 strong, had been equal to that in the murder camps during September, that army would have been decimated? That, no doubt, would seem to you, reader, to be an exaggeration. Yet in making that statement we should be underestimating, instead of overestimating, overesti-mating, the loss the English army would be to kill off every tenth man, which in an army of 200,000 would mean the loss of 20,000 soldiers. The actual reduction of the English forces in September would have been more than one-half if the death rate among England's hired man-killers had been the same as that which prevailed in Kitchener's murder camps, where the death rate during the month of September Sep-tember was 264 per 1,000 for women and 432 per 1,000 for children. At this rate of mortality 113,000 of Kitchener's soldiers would have perished per-ished in a single month, and the murderer mur-derer of women and children would have found himself in the month of October with an army of S7.000, which the fathers, sons, husbands and brothers broth-ers of the victims of the murder camps would make short work of. judging by the .war they have handled the L'00,000 English soldiers - now in the field. Let us make one more comparison In order to bring out in all .its hideous-ness hideous-ness the wanton and cruel slaughter of the innocents. In 1897 India paid one more installment of the price of British connection. A plague and famine in that year claimed its India victims by the thousands. The world was horrified as it listened to the story of how men, women and children died of starvation in one of the greatest food-producing countries in the world. Yet, after the plague and famine of 1897 had done their worst, it was found that in the district which had suffered the most the 'death rate, was 69.34 per 1.000. Compare these figures with the murder rate of 264 per 1.000 for women and 432 per 1.000 for children in Kitchener's Kitch-ener's torture camps. The places where weak women and innocent children chil-dren are confined as if they were wild beasts we have advisedly stigmatized as torture camps. Think of starving women and children as a means of inducing in-ducing their male relatives in arms to surrender! Such is" the way England makes war at the dawn of the twentieth twen-tieth century. |
