BOER HEROISM AT ELANDSLAAGTE.
[TO TIER EDITOR OF TUE "sescrwroa.1
Si,—Under the above heading appeared a letter in your issue of November 11th, 1905, from Mr. J. S. Trotter (Pro-Boer) in which he says : "The Boers are forbidden by the Peace Preservation Act to erect any memorial or indulge in any eulogy of the war." Not baying a copy of the Act by me, I cannot say whether this is the case or not ; but if it is, it has never to my knowledge been enforced in this Colony, the Dutch being quite as free to erect memorials to the fallen as the British. Only as recently as last July a memorial to the fallen Boers at Frederikstad was unveiled by ex-General De La Rey in the presence of two thousand persons, including not only the leading Dutch, but English, both military and civilian. I am sending you by this post a photograph of the [The memorial shown in the photograph is a handsome obelisk, on the front face of the plinth of which is an inscription:— " Ter
Gedachtenis aan ONZE GESNEUVELDE BURGERS
Tx FREDERIRSTRDEN ONETIME=
1899-1902 Potchefstroom
[Then follow the names of the eleven Burghers] Getrouw tot den Dood."
—ED. Spectator.]
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