Show WILL CONTINUE A YEAR Brother of Gen Wessels Talks of Transvaal War Chicago Jan 7Dan J Vessels a S brother of Gen Cornelius Vcsscls the commander of the Boer forces besiegIng besieg-ing Kimberley and cousin of President Steyn of the Orange Free State said in an Interview In Chicago today 11 expect to get back in time to have plenty of fighting I am convinced that the war will last at least another year and while the Boers nlll probably be crushed provided there Is no foreign Intervention there Is certain to be a protracted > erlod of guerrilla warfare for the Boer will fight to the last extremity ex-tremity I think the present war might have been avoided but for Englands oppressive oppres-sive demands yet It would have been merely a postponement of an inevitable Inevit-able conflict for the time would have come when the Boers and the English I who have bottled for the supremacy oC South Africa The leading men of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State L have understood this for a long time I but hoped that somehow events would I shape themselves so that the conflict I would be postponed The Jameson raid however proved It was near at hands hand-s And they have been strainlnj every nerve to prepare for It One who has no personal knowledge I of the fact cannot understand the bitter bit-ter undying hatred the Boers have for the English After the Jameson raid I met numbers of old men who prayed they might not die until they had first killed an Englishman In battle and the children have become Imbued with the J same sentiment |