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Title: The Siege of Kimberley

Author: T. Phelan

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Language: English

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THE SIEGE OF KIMBERLEY

Its Humorous and Social Side

ANGLO-BOER WAR (1899-1902)

_EIGHTEEN WEEKS IN EIGHTEEN CHAPTERS_

BY
T. PHELAN

DUBLIN M.H. GILL & SON, LTD.

1913

_All Rights Reserved_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
Week ending 21st October, 1899

CHAPTER II
Week ending 28th October, 1899

CHAPTER III
Week ending 4th November, 1899

CHAPTER IV
Week ending 11th November, 1899

CHAPTER V
Week ending 18th November, 1899

CHAPTER VI
Week ending 25th November, 1899

CHAPTER VII
Week ending 2nd December, 1899

CHAPTER VIII
Week ending 9th December, 1899

CHAPTER IX
Week ending 16th December, 1899

CHAPTER X
Week ending 23rd December, 1899

CHAPTER XI
Week ending 30th December, 1899

CHAPTER XII
Week ending 6th January, 1900

CHAPTER XIII
Week ending 13th January, 1900

CHAPTER XIV
Week ending 20th January, 1900

CHAPTER XV
Week ending 27th January, 1900

CHAPTER XVI
Week ending 3rd February, 1900

CHAPTER XVII
Week ending 10th February, 1900

CHAPTER XVIII
Week ending 17th February, 1900

INTRODUCTION

The famous Ultimatum had gone forth to the world. War had come at last.
We, in Kimberley, were in for it--though happily unconscious of our
destiny until it was revealed by the gradations of time. Nothing awful
was anticipated. The future was veiled. The knowledge of what was to
come was brought home to us by a gradual process that kept us
permanently sane. Dull Kimberley was to be enlivened in a manner that
made us wish it were dull again. We felt it from the first--the sense of
imprisonment--the deprivation of liberty. But that was all, we
thought--all that we should be called to endure. Nobody could leave
Kimberley for a little while; it was awkward, certainly; but nothing
more. How long would the Siege last? "About a week" was a favoured
illusion; u