Footnote 36: See summary of a letter of Michael Davitt, whose Boer sympathies are well known, from Kroonstadt, March 31, to the Dublin Freeman"s Journal, given in the London Times, June 25, 1900.(Back)
Footnote 37: "The Cavalry Rush to Kimberley," p. 210.(Back)
Footnote 38: London Weekly Times, March 23 and April 6 (p. iii). In the absence of official reports other than telegraphic summaries, the author has based his account chiefly on this authority.(Back)
Footnote 39: Bullet"s telegram from Ladysmith, March 2.(Back)
Footnote 40: London Weekly Times, March 30, 1900.(Back)
Footnote 41: These figures are taken from a speech made by the Under Secretary of War in Parliament, June 29, 1900.(Back)