HC Deb 10 March 1881 vol 259 c740
MR. J. R. YORKE

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he had received any confirmation of the announcement which appeared in the morning papers that the Boers were employing the leisure enjoyed by them during the armistice in burning the homesteads of British residents in the Transvaal?

MR. CHILDERS

No, Sir, we have received no telegram to that effect.