The War in South Africa - Its Cause and Conduct

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The War in South Africa, by Arthur Conan Doyle This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Release Date: March 29, 2008 [eBook #24951] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA*** E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Stephen Blundell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA ITS CAUSE AND CONDUCT BY A. CONAN DOYLE A. CONAN DOYLE AUTHOR OF 'THE GREAT BOER WAR' PUBLISHED BY SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON, S.W. All Copies for the Colonies and India supplied by G. BELL & SONS, London and Bombay 1902 [All rights reserved] [v]PREFACE For some reason, which may be either arrogance or apathy, the British are very slow to state their case to the world. At present the reasons for our actions and the methods which we have used are set forth in many Blue-books, tracts, and leaflets, but have never, so far as I know, been collected into one small volume.