Friday, November 17, 2000

Saturday, November 17, 1900. British barbarity in the Transvaal.

Field Marshal Kitchener announced a plan that would result in Boer concentration camps in the Transvaal., following a policy of rural depopulation first explored by the Spanish in Cuba.

The campbs would end up housing 111,619 white and 43,780 black citizens residents of the Transvaal.  They'd feature a 34% death rate.

Dr. Ernest Reynolds discovered the cause of an outbreak of alcoholic neuritis in the United Kingdom.  It was traced to  a manufacturer of contaminated glucose used in the brewing process, and then to impure sulfuric acid used in processing the glucose.   Seventy people died as a result, 36 of those people in Manchester.

The U.S. Navy completed tests on 12 inch naval guns.

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Friday, November 16, 1900. The lynching of Preston Porder.

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