19 DECEMBER 1903, Page 15

A. 1JELATED LIE FROM . THE LEYDS FACTORY. [TO THE EDITOR

OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,--4 am enclosing the following cutting from the Feuille d'Avis de Newhard of yesterday (December 10th) in the hope that you may be able to publish it, and that thus some one with .a knowledge of the facts of the case may be led to write a few lines in answer.—I am, Sir, &c.,

G. A. BIENEHANN, British Chaplain at Neuchatel.

et REVUE; AU BUREAU DE LA FEUILLE D'AVIS DE

NEIICHITEL' EN SAVEUE DES Bens AFFAMk8.—Anonyme 5 fr.— Anonyme du Landeron 10 fr.—Total a ce jour 15 fr.

SOUSCRIPTION EN FAVEUR DES BOERS.—Noun recevons les lignes suivantes : Monsieur le redacteur,—Je viens de lire votre appel en faveur dee Boers, qua les Anglais out assujettis, mines, et qui meurent de rnisere et de faim. J'ai lu aussi pinsieurs lettres de Mlle. Evelyn degli Asinelli, qui s'est associ6e h rceuvre entreprise par miss Hobhouse pour venir au secours de ces malheureux... La premiere pensee qui vient t resprit en lisant ces lignes est calla-ci: Cela regarde• les Anglais ! Evidemment, mais si les Anglais ne font pas leur devoir P—Alors ()Masons a une pensee plus haute. La souffrance est toujours is souffrance et personae ne peut s'en desinteresser. Puisque rAngleterre laisse mourir les Bcers, aidons les Bcers a vivre !—Je vous envois ma modeste

obole. PH. G."

[We are grateful to Mr. Bienemann for sending us this mendacious extract. The suggestion that there are Boers dying of famine whom the Government of the Transvaal could succour if they would is a lie pure and simple, and may be fearlessly contradicted by all who encounter it. The history of the world affords no parallel to the humanity and care with which the British came to the aid of the Boers when the war was over; and strained every nerve to prevent their late enemies suffering from the dearth and misery that always follow a protracted war. The only question in doubt is whether in their anxiety to help the Boers the British were not sometimes inclined to neglect their own friends.—En.

Spectator.]