![CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Autograph manuscript signed ('Winston Spencer Churchill'), two fragments (the opening and conclusion) of a dispatch entitled 'WITH HEADQUARTERS ... Prisoners of War', States Model School prison, Pretoria, 20 November [1899], [written for the Morning Post whilst Churchill was a prisoner of war], a few cancellations and emendations, on light-weight paper, 98 x 190mm and 137 x 191mm, printer's annotations and markings, tipped in to a mount. Provenance: 'Presented by Mr Tom Greig, December 1938' (inscription on mount) -- Phillips, 11 December 1986, lot 85A.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_06332_0237_000(churchill_winston_s_autograph_manuscript_signed_two_fragments_of_a_dis105604).jpg?w=1)
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Autograph manuscript signed ('Winston Spencer Churchill'), two fragments (the opening and conclusion) of a dispatch entitled 'WITH HEADQUARTERS ... Prisoners of War', States Model School prison, Pretoria, 20 November [1899], [written for the Morning Post whilst Churchill was a prisoner of war], a few cancellations and emendations, on light-weight paper, 98 x 190mm and 137 x 191mm, printer's annotations and markings, tipped in to a mount. Provenance: 'Presented by Mr Tom Greig, December 1938' (inscription on mount) -- Phillips, 11 December 1986, lot 85A.
A DISPATCH FROM BOER CAPTIVITY. 'The position of a prisoner of war is painful and humiliating': Churchill writes barely a week after entering the State Model School Prison in Pretoria, and three weeks before his famous escape. 'A man tries his best to kill another and finding that he cannot succeed asks his enemy for mercy. The laws of war demand that this should be accorded ...'. The article concludes with a gloomy meditation on the future of the South African War, reflecting even on the prospect 'that we should lose South Africa', but ending on a note of typically grandiloquent optimism with an evocation of the return of hope and realism with the dawn of a new day after a stormy night. Churchill reprints the dispatch in London to Ladysmith, pp.89-109.
A DISPATCH FROM BOER CAPTIVITY. 'The position of a prisoner of war is painful and humiliating': Churchill writes barely a week after entering the State Model School Prison in Pretoria, and three weeks before his famous escape. 'A man tries his best to kill another and finding that he cannot succeed asks his enemy for mercy. The laws of war demand that this should be accorded ...'. The article concludes with a gloomy meditation on the future of the South African War, reflecting even on the prospect 'that we should lose South Africa', but ending on a note of typically grandiloquent optimism with an evocation of the return of hope and realism with the dawn of a new day after a stormy night. Churchill reprints the dispatch in London to Ladysmith, pp.89-109.
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