Show BOER WOMEN TO FIGHT Preparing to Defend Pretoria Against the Bri British S Ne York Apri April to te the Herad Herald from says Ater After Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock sent to 0 Webster Davis a brIer brief note in which he said the presIdent had asked him to announce that M Mr DavI Davis res ron ignation has bee been accepted to take ef effo fo foot Apri April 4 M Mr Davis eIt lt at liberty then to talk freely upon the South A Af African rican situation ad and to a friend rene he re related related the hIsor history of his trIp My journey nan a uneventful until we crose crossed the al l border ad and stopped at at he sd Said There the whole neighborhood turned out an and welcomed me At statIon af after after ter the staton station master would come tc to the cr ear touch his bin red cap ad adas and as ask if there was an anything he be could do for my mv comfort Yet the EnglIsh told rue me wih with gat great that the savage Boers would shoot me as soon as they learned I soke spoke They tel tell this le lie BO 50 mu much h at Cape Town hat they even got Colonel Stowe towe our consul there to beleve belIeve i it At Pretoria I 1 was given givena a cor cordial a greeting Marvelous to state durIn during al all the time I wa there not one one mn ama aSed aked m me whether I 1 favored the Brits BritIsh or Boer Boom 11 1 viewed the defense defenses of PretorIa ad and I 1 consider them Impregnable I do donot donot not beleve believe the Engleh English troops wl will ever pa pass th the lne line of hil hills surrounding the town bristling as they are with high power Krupp ad and Creusot guns Have Eave Hany UlY Gus Guns Tere There seem seems a very general impression impression sion that the guns used by the Boers in the feld field were taken taleen from the fort ree ressee at Pretoria but I saw every earthwork ad end fort surrounding the town and I could not see whee where any guns had ben been removed They he were al all there ad and formidable they looked When I describe the city as impregnable impregnable I 1 spek speak from the judgment of a aman aman man ot of common sens sense PretorIa les lies in ina Ina a bain basin surrounded by rugged hills af affording affording fording most admirable opportunities for or defense While there I learned enough to snow tOW that the city Is one Vt vast storehouse of foodstuffs and am ammunition What impressed me mot most wa was the natural bignes bigness of that grand grad old mn man Kruger I consider him a as possessed of more of the element elements of greatness than any man I ever met At 76 7 h he i Is a as ful full of vigor as the average man who owns up to o twenty years less Hi His versatility Iy ity me deep deeply I 1 haveIt on unimpeachable author authorIty I Iy Ity that the battle of Colenso Wh where re Buler Buller was crushed by the Boers wa was planned entirely b by thi this old man Jou Joubert Joubert bert carried out instructions to the the letter and won that signal vie vic victor tor tory by the directions of an old man manaway manaway away up there in Pretoria 11 I was present at te the batte battle of Spion Kop and saw a thin lne line of o Bors Beers drive an army before thEm thorn After the fight I walked over the feld field and counted the dead bodies of 1 Englishmen in one trench where the Boers Beers had bad placed them for burIal During my stay in inthe inthe the neighborhood I visited ever every lager lagerin laager in thE the Ine lines surrounding the cIty ad and talked wih with scores of and men Held Beld Buller uler at Bay y 11 1 visited th Jnes lines long the Tugela where Buler Builer his men were held at bay and I speak from the most positive knowledge when I say that al all of the Boer troops in that region nurn num bred bored but With thi this force Jou Joubert ou bert and Botha held Buler Buller bak back and kept White ad and his men corralled in the town ton When Cronje was threatened men en were rent to him m Layt leavIng about to face ace the men of the enemy I At t the batte of the Litte Little Buler Buller wa was again again driven back upon Chieveley I saw saw General Luis Louis Botha In action and I conn der him the great greatest greatest est acton of the Dutch commanders command rs Wen When the fighting began Botha was sunter saunter saunterIng ing along behind the line Une of trenches watching his men tak taking ng careful sot shots at the advance of the British force n For half an hour after we could first detect the movement there wa was not much excitement but al all at once there was a a rush of cavalry and artlery artillery and the double quick of infantry in open order The bullets began to patter round around us and two were hit close beside Botha He seemed to awake instantly and I sprang down into the trench exclaim exclaiming exclaiming ing shot shoot in Dutch As the word wa was carried along the lines he I caught up tc rUle rifle from frem the hands of ofa a dead burgher and began making I quick but careful shots at the foe Five minutes and it L wa was over as ae I as the rush had ben begun Prom the Boer side it was lIke the I fight with the Fuzzy in the desert At Pretoria 1 I met President Steyn I also learned that there is DO truth I l in th the report coming fro from English sources concerning disse dissensions n the wo twO presidents They hey are in perfect accord As I sid said before I do not beleve believe the British wi will ever enter Pretoria Even the women of the town are sp sup supplied pled plied wih with rifles and are daly daily practicing ing in Some ome of them fre frever pre inS ver very expert and ther average shooting is god good The Th strength h of Kruger and his bugher burghers li in the b belief that God is with t thern e S 5 |