Mr. Cinatti said he was not at liberty to disclose them--that, in fact, they were not known (with the exception of the writer of the petition) to the other Consuls. General Maxwell then pressed him to give him that name only, as he particularly wished to know who had drawn up the petition. This was refused, fortunately for Mrs. van Warmelo, for the penalty would have been great. The military authorities left no stone unturned afterwards to find out who the women petitioners were, but without success, thanks to the great precautions taken by the Portuguese Consul. A full month passed and no reply came from Lord Kitchener. A second petition, more strongly worded than the first, was then drawn up, imploring the Consuls to intercede on behalf of the victims of the Concentration Camps and to inform the Powers represented by them, of the death-rate which threatened the Boer nation with extinction. Again a meeting of the Consuls was called, at which three of them were appointed to form a committee of investigation: Consul Cinatti, Consul-General for Portugal. Baron Pitner, Consul-General for Austria. Baron Ostmann, Consul-General for Germany. Some of the other members at the meeting were: M. Domela Nieuwenhuis, Consul-General for the Netherlands. M. Aubert, Consul-General for France. Mr. Gordon, Consul-General for United States. The latter lived in Johannesburg, but attended all the meetings held in Pretoria in connection with the Concentration Camps. From General Maxwell the committee of investigation got permission to inspect the Camp at Irene, called the "Model Camp," and with the statistics obtained there, as well as the official statistics of all the camps in the Transvaal, the Diplomatic Corps drew up a report, which went to prove that unless immediate steps were taken to arrest the appalling death-rate, the Boer population in the camps would be extinct within a period of three years. Copies of this report were sent to the Military Governor and Lord Kitchener, and to ten foreign Powers, with copies of the second petition.