Sir, – I agree with Niall Gillespie's letter (October 12th) objecting to the unveiling of a bust of Field Marshall Frederick Roberts in Waterford. He refers to the atrocities carried out by the British army under his command. It should also not be forgotten that he was responsible for the burning of farmhouses and the herding of Afrikaner women and children into concentration camps in which 20,000 died because of neglect and unsanitary conditions during the Second Anglo-Boer War. He has never been forgiven, and rightly so, by the Afrikaners. – Yours, etc,
BRIAN P Ó CINNEIDE,
Durban,
South Africa.