These men were placed in groups about the Amphitheatre.

No sooner had the meeting begun, than, on a signal given by Mr.Broeksma, chairs were broken, and, under the orders of Sergeant Smith, of the municipal police, of Erasmus, of the special police, Lieutenants Murphy and Keller of the secret police, and, with the assistance of policemen in uniform, they commenced an assault upon the members.

Lieutenant Posthuysen, on horseback in the arena, encouraged the rioters.
Nothing could show Dr.Kuyper's manner of stating and interpreting facts better than the following sentence:-- "It was simply a matter of the careful protection of British subjects, or rather of the worthy apostles of Johannesburg, who had begun by saying to the magistrates of the Transvaal 'keep away your police!' and who, later, crawling back from this meeting, after being well thrashed, complained bitterly that the police had not protected them." Dr.Kuyper seems to think it highly amusing that the "worthy apostles of Johannesburg had been well thrashed." When we find a European Dutchman, a man of letters, showing such animus in the examination of facts, one may judge of what the Boers are capable, ignorant and rough as they are, and inflated with the conviction that they are the elect people.
[Footnote 11: _Le Siecle_, March 31st, 1900.] 2 .-- _Different modes of estimating bail._ We have seen that one of the objects of the meeting had been to protest against the arrests of Messrs.

Dodd and Webb.

These two gentlemen had been arrested as the organisers of an illegal meeting in the public market square, a public place, where no speeches had been made, but where the petition to the Queen had been openly read, before they had taken it to the British Vice-Consul.