The Diary of Dorothy Priest, October 14th 1914

There has been trouble in South Africa.

A Boer General has been rebelling and I fancy they have got him but I don’t know his punishment.  I think martial law was proclaimed in the Union at once.  The Times says the war is going to last a long time.  It has hardly begun in the West and not at all in the East.  It has, though, but still it may last a long time, but I hope not more than two years.  The Belgian seat of Government seems to me rather like, though of course much better than, the Boer one after Bols arrived, continually moving. [Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Bols, distinguished British military officer].  When Brussels was in danger it went to Antwerp, and thence to Ostend, and now after about a week it has gone right out of Belgium and into France to Havre.  I hope its next move will be back to Belgium again. 

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