Show PAST WITH THE BOERS I 1 we notice that some pomo of our eastern papers are getting ready as an usual to til declare that in case a clash comes between great britain and the boers it will simply be a war of conquest on the part ot of ci gibat eat britain with those people history will go BO for the truth I 1 Is that the boers owe their present security solely to the british government ern ment ark an army broke the power pollee of Cete mayo and his army of desperate savages about the most moat formidable force that barbarians have ever put in the held field in modern times the other chief see whom the boers had never been able to hold their own against nas w as suppressed by british sold soldiers lers when tile the british government had moved every obstacle out of the way at 0 the boers the doers boers themselves arose armed N w ith the finest sporting rifles rides that money con could id buy purchased from english traders and the first notice the ang lj h received was not to go along a certain road and when nhen they proceeded along that road they were shot do down n like dogs they gave the british a tearful fearful defeat at macuba Ia juba hill on oil february rebr uary 26 ISSI indeed through the whole war the british hardly won a success the boers proclaimed a republic and tile the british regiment that had been ordered to concentrate at pretoria was ordered back by the boers and nl hen the commander refused from a well concealed ambush tile the dutch opened fire and in I 1 live minutes every and halt half the privates had bad been shot down then came the defeat of tile the british under gen colley at lames laings nek the british were eliken dill en front from the mountains and then a peace was patched up which has lasted up to today the success in that war make the boers believe that in any aar they can A whip lit p the english ln elish slid and with that feeling in their mindo nande it Is Dos possible bible that kitchener will have to repeat in south africa on the boers what il hat he performed on the maliet on the upper nile |