Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1901 — Olive Schreiner a Prisoner. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Olive Schreiner a Prisoner.

Mrs Olive Schreiner-Cronwright, who has been confined in a wire netting

reservation by the British in South Africa and there kept an isolated prisoner, was one of the warmest sympathizers with the Boers during the early troubles in 1899. She was more bitter than her brother, William Philip Schreiner, who, as premier of Cape Colony, openly advocated the cause of the Dutch Afrikanders. Mrs. Cronwright is descended from Boer ancestors and she showed her blood in the book she wrote and published in the defense of her people just before President Kruger declared war on Great Britain. This book was entitled “An English South African View of. the Situation,” and contained some very free expressions of opinion on the justice of British rule or attempted rule in South Africa.

OLIVE SCHREINER.