Today in Kimberley's History
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104 days since beginning of the Siege of Kimberley, 1900
Extract from "The Diary of a Doctor's Wife – During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900" by Winifred Heberden.
Still quietness - to everybody's astonishment. Bomb and splinter-proof shelters have been erected in nearly all the gardens or on the verandahs of private houses. Some people try to account for the pacific attitude of the Boers by publishing a rumour that Lord Methuen threatened to no longer treat them as a civilised nation, but would drop dynamite from balloons on them if they continued to shell the town instead of the Forts!
Extract from "The Diary of a Doctor's Wife – During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900" by Winifred Heberden.
Still quietness - to everybody's astonishment. Bomb and splinter-proof shelters have been erected in nearly all the gardens or on the verandahs of private houses. Some people try to account for the pacific attitude of the Boers by publishing a rumour that Lord Methuen threatened to no longer treat them as a civilised nation, but would drop dynamite from balloons on them if they continued to shell the town instead of the Forts!
