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It The Burghers Were Warned That Those Who Had Not Laid Down Their
Arms By September 15th Would In The Case Of The Leaders Be
Banished, And In The Case Of The Burghers Be Compelled To Support
Their Families In The Refugee Camps.
As many of the fighting
burghers were men of no substance, the latter threat did not affect
them much, but the other, though it had little result at the time,
may be useful for the exclusion of firebrands during the period of
reconstruction.
Some increase was noticeable in the number of
surrenders after the proclamation, but on the whole it had not the
result which was expected, and its expediency is very open to
question. This date may be said to mark the conclusion of the
winter campaign and the opening of a new phase in the struggle.
CHAPTER 35.
THE GUERILLA OPERATIONS IN CAPE COLONY.
In the account which has been given in a preceding chapter of the
invasion of Cape Colony by the Boer forces, it was shown that the
Western bands were almost entirely expelled, or at least that they
withdrew, at the time when De Wet was driven across the Orange
River. This was at the beginning of March 1901. It was also
mentioned that though the Boers evacuated the barren and
unprofitable desert of the Karoo, the Eastern bands which had come
with Kritzinger did not follow the same course, but continued to
infest the mountainous districts of the Central Colony, whence they
struck again and again at the railway lines, the small towns,
British patrols, or any other quarry which was within their reach
and strength.
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