| Show DISGUSTED WITH BOERS Light Thrown Upon Michael I Davitts Visit to Transvaal I IS BItTER AGAINST KRUSER t Declares tho Only Object Oom Pnul n 3 D tTT tu 4 JJIIU 1U t lUJMU JUg V ti < 1 ltd v I HeapUpBarsofGoldWhlcliWaSe I I Being Taken from Mines Under j His Direction Davitt Advised Iks j President of Transvaal to Surrender Surren-der Just as Soon as the Free State Was Conquered I Correspondence Associated Press 1 London Tuesday Sept lSrhe Pretoria Pre-toria correspondent of the Standard In a recent dispatch throws an entirely 1 new light upon Michael Davitts experiences ex-periences in the Transvaal and his feelIngs l feel-Ings toward the Boers In view oC Mr Davitts contribution to the American press during and subsequent to his I visit to the seat of war the Standards dispatch Is of Interest It Is us follows fol-lows Michael Davitt left Pretoria on the 15th of May I3rolcen and sick at heart according to the words he himself used on the railway train Rev II J Batts Baptist minister has recorded them I and they are testified to by Rev Henry W Goodwin Congregational minister Ho told me1 said Mr Balls that he had that morninG advised the Transvaal Trans-vaal Government that If I they would commend themselves In the eyes of the world and obtain the sympathy of European Eu-ropean nations that they should at I once wire Lord Roberts to this effect Now that the Free State Is conquered con-quered and we are quite unable to ic wlst alone the might of England in the interests of humanity and to prevent t 1 further bloodshed we will surrender Instead of doing this said Mr Da I vitt they have sent a message of a threatening character telling Lord Roberts that they will blow up the mines or destroy Johannesburg If I some terms arc not made What the terms are they do not slate and they do not really mean to carry out the threat I Their whole action will cover them with ignominy and contempt before the civilized civ-ilized world Their purpose is to prolong pro-long the business without seriously meaning to light with the one object of heaping up the bars of gold they are taking from the mines and of accumulating accu-mulating and hoarding them in obedience I obedi-ence to the dictation of that old man Kruger That old man Paul Kruger continued Mr Davitt is engaged In a sort of spiritualistic seance business I r with some blind boy predicting events that are to happen on certain days I came out here at my own expense It has cost me 300 I was full of enthusIasm enthu-siasm for these people They know me they knew my feelings but they have never trusted me Today they refused to give me information as to the situation for my papers and I go away broken and sick at heart I am thoroughly disillusionized For me to I remain Is no longer possible I cannot endure It They ask me Why go away so soon Things are not so bad as you think What said I when 10000 men retire as at Kroonstadt and practically practical-ly run away without firing a shot I went down to Kroonstadt and saw their positions They were excellent The Boers thoroughly deceived me They assured me that they would dispute every ev-ery Inch of ground and would sell their J liberties with their lives What happened hap-pened you know All along the line I havo been refused their confidence and have been thoroughly I deceived I wrote to my papers this rubbish about the grand stand that was to be made at Kroonstadt speaking through them to Europe I would give 100 to with draw what I have written I goaway today but do not know that I can get a British passport from Delagoa bay But Interposed Mr Batts there arc other English Journalists here beside be-side yourself U Yes replied Mr Davitt But I am Journalist plus politician There is a difference A French Baron came up at this moment He has said Mr Davitt fought through the war He has given up everything for their cause Now he is going away a pauper utterly cog lected l without monoy enough to pay I Ills fare |
