ons have at
times made it a terrible one. It is only the recognition of brotherhood
that can alter this, and the recognition of brotherhood would end war.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 32: See the full statement, pp. 75 ff.]

[Footnote 33: See the summary of the official returns given by
Miss Emily Hobhouse on p. 328 of "The Brunt of the War." The
careful Boer compilation made after the war records the death of
26,370 women and children--more than four times the mortality
among the Boer combatants. The full details are recorded in the
archives at Pretoria, and it is to these that Miss Hobhouse
refers in the pamphlet containing her speech at the unveiling of
the National Monument at Bloemfontein on "Vrouwen-Dag," 1913.]

[Footnote 34: "The Transvaal Burgher Camps," by Lieut.-Col.
S. J. Thomson.]

[Footnote 35: The marshy site of Merebank is compared by Miss
Emily Hobhouse to that of the German camp at Wittenberg.]

[Footnote 36: "'Forage' needs explanation," writes Miss
Hobhouse. "We requisitioned for forage, because, as there was no
milk for the children, we were planning to buy some cows, _if_
we could secure forage. However, we failed."]

IV

REPRISALS OF GOOD.

For the information contained in this chapter I am greatly indebted to
the Friends' Emergency Committee. Most of it has already appeared in
their leaflets and reports, and in articles in _The Friend_. The
following is a reprint of a letter sent by the Bishop of Winchester to
the _Times_. It appeared in the issue of September 29, 1916:

GERMAN WORK FOR PRISONERS.

Sir,--The following facts, if you can find space for them, will,
I think, be of interest and encouragement amidst all the sorrow
and misery of war.

The word "reprisals" is often heard in diplomacy and in war;
reprisals are attempted or suggested; or reprisals of cruelty
are condemned, we rejoice to know, by the instinct and
conscience of the nation. These are all reprisals of what is
bad. Rarer, at least on the surface, are reprisals of good. But
here is such a case.

At the outbreak of the war members of the Society of Friends and
others came together for the purpose of bringing help to those
men and women of enemy nationality in this country upon whom the
war had brought suffering. Their lot was often a pitiable one.
The pull of contrary affectio