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and ran a weekly advertisement in the Iiidhar, t Tien,,
The campaign against thot'pro"Boer&*began with a
letter to the paper, followed by the aettine up of a
placard in the market equere; some care had been taken
to inscribe this with satirical variations on the names
of the victims and their profeenionn, and a demonstration
was advertised for the same night.
(1)
This took the
form of a procession of between throe and four hundred
people who broke windows and damaged property and it
was repeated on the two succeeding nithtsr The victims
were all Z1idhurat tradesmen of a rather higher social
class than the crowd# -a tailors a hairdresser and
the owner of e newspaper chop. It was claimed that they
wereall
Liberale,
(2)
though their only offanco
appeared to have boon expression of some ""t}iouphtieac
opiniona on the wear.
" ý3?
The only'_ aoaco activity'
in Uidhurat had been the collection of a few cignaturec
for Stead's Memorial *t ainat the war $, at the *itci oiý 1899,
but none of the victims of jingoium had boon lintod. ao_.
(i) Ibn 9th March 1900.
(2) Stnr+ 9th March 1900,
(3) {idhurRt Timen, 9th tßhrch 1900,