An item reported that the American fund for British wounded now estimated 7,500 pound sterling and that the Maine of the Atlantic Transport Company was fitted out as hospital ship and handed over to the British cabinet during the war.(1)
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 Orange Free State and South African Republic (Transvaal). In 1920 became the Union of South Africa part of the Commonwealth.
