An item reported that according to tidings received from Bermuda dated the evening before that among the Boers prisoner of war were young boys with an age of 8-10 years who transported ammunition to their fighting fathers in the trenches. Further more were two prisoners so old that they had to crawl on the gangway to the shore. The prisoners claimed to be well treated by the English and that their stay on Bermuda was very well but they complained about the war and hoped that it would end soon.
Note
1. The Second Boer War found place between 11 October 1899 and 31 May 1902 and ended in a defeat of the Boers and regaining British sovereignty of the 
