Show 11 H ill II HH H i H r H I Iri H I Ij I S H F H F I I 1 I T t iI I ir III H IiI H I I IH H t H I I H H 1 1 HI i i ri I F II H H I j r H r b r r Declares Boers oe s Will Yet e er Win Independence p l e e e I IJ I r L nor 0 win the Ihl war seal DO rs will t the two lac iI Britain and In free be will yet al ChrIs Gellel lian Ilan U ll nt and Ind l thi the ru result WIO this Is br about rIY al ae I 1 I b t I P III Creator who shut IhlI II 1 of u uThe all al guideS l er l ot of the Doers rrt The b grout owing the Pert next r f th the firM fight for lIber lIberI to t and andr l tiey General otter lifter I f e r n st 1 kept on ear d t r u b cause callO trl un tl their eight ill te tep th r t I or even V eM did W e e p as it II p our r hoPI hopeless I r h 1 ht may appear our f item s sa IJ Ir h hll our sill fI they until our ourI a urn arms 0 hwn Ih their lr freed f om m i Is t our and I i II h wn II n of our l I p ha Hundreds II of f ha r t der derf OUt all rl I 1 b b Its III use bae b 10 1 de deI yr III node i r herds herd r f and kH I tr M be been n driven hove have or us U C ted led un ten t many front from our i 11 t I 01 r I la r r milts owe we r 1 but toul these things that w we Ilia shall I II b I r t o ai ar 0 In the end Kant b I rAIS G Gr TO n lo E Er fought for tor tort r A Ar 1111 I an any enY Im t f r ao In t r I u 18 n ler sere l 1 Just just gas al a noW flow I ln rn ands 11 and an thanks time came bur the n r 11 knew nil no Bur lur Burr lurr who ho I tr n orld the t It n t I hI old und r t r P which I d to the r I le Ie Ier leer which now l r er Y I n e to In which Wn w t I U s be l h J hi name to the I I ln fume so Ie shall h forces to tou h t n p I s i t I 10 i I our ur mull u ae a h I lay ahe Ic II the he her ther I awu wu t n e he leAder of ourthe our th Ih present q a r ami the If be hi wilt will fv f f mn under him lUBe euce U If he dies dice diesI I there e a hun hund I c d I Ill n t te to take hll place A J t I U n l not one min r t e I hIe bt and anI more more than one m mu 1 lilY II the u r 1 ar t Ii I I n of ul South Africa y u ui j him there therit I It are J H ng and g g t h a I I able g generale II as he ready I I o V n h II I c e y that the Doers will III win U le u II 1 moan that thaI they th will win 1 n It Itis is 1 r us I f ro r I II eel 11 r II lIe we never expected would wouldn r th uh the Ihl former t i r t I n u II naturallY hl or order II fight I II It fight d der r II tn in we I e must mUll tight II bt tl I r I n J t tl h r until our Ou r pant enemy r f s u 11 fn 0 k prudence 1 e or until n not t one 0 of t q 1 is fro Idl olive to 11 demand It These Ii e r I nl nil my 01 th they 1 r hr 1 by br every Ier burgher who is b isa bd n a a Ih the n uru or twenty ent thou d t t I 11 nap jn In the Ih field I w h b n I bade bad jf goodby to Gen Oen Dewet nt n t Ir h e 1 In September he her heI r If H u hear that I have haver rb I I den Il I will III never sur lur lurI r I 1 Brit ar long as one roan roann I n 0 Ir II nt I ari rt to m me on September 5 I i 1 him Im n 0 ar I Ibort Y yr r I a II th the friende lIda ot of ott cIa ctr r that bAt ec a I lung RB as I 1 live shall 1 Be t r I jt aURe tte will continue t I ht f n P II we win l n 1 I th spirit II nhi hit h tea the thee t e rom cite 1110 oun 00 bay to tot I n t I f I th oldest grandfather IT an d di father u i t I rift U to fight when J that nu 11 are beaten t lUll ask Ah but that Ihal is II iseL nu eL that II e do do not grant Irant Wo WoR L n r rees R no doubt dOllt u lint Dut ten t 1 lOur ur II II m lire are a as In e r they Ih ever II were rt t I ull n to right le Is based baled UPOn t tio h t shut lIt we have hale r rr t I nod everything nl p to gain p r I i ha Itt been n to tho r I n i Irp our has ass been r ar tarn turne dUr destroyed e our docks ci tr ds J n b by Ih the British h soldier Ir r w r s a and children are scat rr r l h lit r the II r I generals r arc 1 I err r r l 1 dent 1 to 0 them I a ni It J n In the Q world with our ou NI IM H I t I t and our cause and with the one we must defend the other TO DEWIT En EnI I know that you OU will ray that Dewet and his hll small arm army cannot contend much aG Dewet the nsf forces far au ot Lord Deet Is IU perlor to In military strategy tu mOlt ignorant a le In his arm ThAt Is n statement but proved It sev several oral eral times to the great mortification of the hero ot of For three months Kitchener with on nn army or of t forty thousand men tried to capture us IS and Dewet laughed at his efforts and IncidentallY from him at In June Tun winter clothing for tor every burgher Inthe In Inthe the army o and intact enough anns ammunItion ay m onn to Jul hi fores forestor for tor three years eara And Dewet did this with lees titan live five thou thousand land men Since last June the entire liner no r army has been supported by the taxpayer tax taxpayer payer Almost every ery single rifle In the Hoer army was UI captured ram the lint Brit In even anti l In our Jue was wall tak taken taken en from the all of our come com supplies for Cor matt mall and Notre hOlle were taken from the h When Whenever Whenever ever there I Ic a lack of anything In our camp WI we sally lIy forth corth And take It from frum the British The English are f the for tor both armlee In uth Africa and so 10 long lone as 81 the Huere can lIn secure the n o of war wal ea ao cheap cheRp 1 If and easily they ned have nil no feaT fear that the national It lury must issue bond to carry on the The Boers noerl will th ills war by harassing theIr enemY continually cur years Ira If need he 11 The They will muke It necessary to beep 1 a mighty for lor r I In Inthe Inthe the country and an lIOon sooner r or 01 later laud land will that she cannot lInnol it 1 t ford forti to spend a year or year tr after af after ter year when nose of her citizens citizen t ec a ot of men can eX lct to gala anything by IJ the vast eX eXpenditure expenditure ALLEGED BRITISH Even 1 en now note six Ix montha after the an annexation of oC the republics the Doers loer are In such complete control of the whole country countr that the two hundred thousand soldiers or of the queen cannot wander tram front th their lr towns town ox eC cent In n ox large all as our whole hole arm army Dewet and the other generals wall continue to make upon the railways and ami garrisons ons they thel will make Into Cape Colony Colon where whre their brethren are becoming dall dally more bitter tIll the government which le 18 constantly mak makIng Ing their lot mo more unendurable and they will continue to outwit their op Of opponents at Every point always bearing In mind that when their ammunition and nOli toad food are exhausted ted the tu tax taxpayer payer JIter Is ready to more The fh lit arm practice or of de th the acme of the Doers ha has done almost ItS as much II as to lB keep the In the field It 1 h ha 1 a policy which is I probably by IJ the lawa of warfare when d dout out nut In n a manner hut huI hutto huIto to my mind the destroy Iroy prop property erty rt almost Th f h territory of the two Is I dote l with the em unit ruins or of th Ih nt nf m men n who were ere nor lenders before the war warThe Tile The homes home of cores of the members of the Free State and th Ih Transvaal have been destroyed for th lh reason renon that the British blamed these the men for having on the Ihl watt aI nod not the arm train In any advantage or teach 1 a lev et by the destruction I mull rile th nm names of of men whose t ur hou have ha VI bene destroyed by h the i doer Boer commandoes ha have over oer the farms Now ow It is 11 n as for a farmer to prevent a Hoer commando of everal thousand men from over his hili ut rut lands ns as It le II for a of 01 York to prevent n a flock of birds hying over the city It Yet the lion ot of Lord says that 1 n farm over oYer which the tho Boer forces have 1 be lIe destroyed troed It stands to I hat when a burgher with Ih the Army knows that hi hia farm Is destroyed and that his bia wIfe and Rr are Icat ecat Ond knows knowe where he ha will prefer to remain with the tore forces In the field H I l iii OT 1 1 Commandant W D spent on one year with the Doer forces ant fought In big battle and andIn to In Innumerable For he was H on General staff and wall with that general when i 1 he clime came within a hair hairs br breadth of capturing Lord Jord Kitchener Mr a candidate tor or the Cape Col Colon on any parliament lust jut before the war and woe n wealthy farmer In the north ot of the colony When the war be 1 finn says the New ew York herald he Joined the Don Boer forces foroe and took A leading part In tIle battle or of L Afterward he h joined Dewet and ancl followed that leader In September he lured lea red that the Cape Colony had offered r 1 a bIg reward leward for him and Pre President Steyn urged him to leave the country Go 00 to America h he said If they r catch mo Ino they can only eon me to St Helena but It you art are caught you ou will be shot Commandant t came here with his hla year son aon who was with him through the whole ot of the war but the other memo mem t 1 bars H of his hili family his wife and his other children he knows know nothing or of the He left lett them at hll hi home but his hll farm tarm t tt t or of three thousand acres has been Jeen and his hie wife and children may he have died Alne lIe he last heard from Crom f 1 them a I year ago ogo Like thousands of other Doers who were once wealthy wealth Mr is now without means meana III a I In I Ia 1 n a result rosult of at the tho War T t T 1 0 1 I I I I I Ir ENGLISH SOLDIERS STRUGGLE TO BE READY FOR NEW ATTACK AT ROODE a av o Jy v 7 ra e er W t I e er 4 5 I c d I f e 1 r S their Invasion ot of Cape ape Colony the Doers took Boode by defeated the forces there and destroyed the railroad nt at that point Another attack le II and Yo every nr Nort I is being made to 10 repair the dam damage age done and rc restore ture equal care caro le Is taken to throw up to repel as aults it Ir renewed N MN N h NI N NT FIR FIRST T LOOK OF E ENGLISH OFFICERS AT TILE TUE SCENE OF COMING CONFLICT T a A M y a G Gr GP Gt r P t Each Toach steamer arriving nt at Capetown from England brings fresh contingents of soldiers to recruit the ranks of oC the tho British forces battling t the Boers Keen Iun Interest Is felt b by all In their first view ot of the land In which theIr metal Is to Ie be so BO severely everel tried and In which an unknown tate fate awaits them u MI M NN p hN I ra rather than return tt to sleep on the ruins ruin of his hll home In the opinion of all of oC OUI our of success are becoming bright or r et every r day In the nut first place we know that the English are beg be headily tired of the war 11 sad and this I ii growing ever every time line a long lOll list or of killed and wounded I Th They know that they cannot withdraw a soldier the UIt country end that for every Ivery man killed or wounded they must send out another The three long lines line ot of railway to from flom Ca Capetown ton Durban and Delagoa nay hay mud be constantly guarded b by thousands of men all al the Ihl garrisoned towns together many more Inore thousands then there are the vast armies or of men Inon constantly pursuing ing 1111 Dewet Deet Dotha Botha land and th the other gen II these things make Inake It IlIr Bury that England keep keel an army of more than two hundred thousand III hl the country If any mn men are arl our fOltes will sweep the whole hole land lam from he British hands hand Then too loo our army arm II growing nu stronger dall daily Dewel has hal recently secured hundreds hundred or of ale able mm n from Carte Cape Colon men who ho have been disgusted by lust such luch things as al happened at Worcester the usher day when hen the farmers held a eune and the British lined the cur lur hills hili with quick guns to prevent free speech Clr TIE THE The annexation of the two t 0 line 11 11 bell been a slap In III the face or of every In Cape Colony olon andI and I 1 urn am willing to wager III my life that the of the Cape Colonists will yet rise rille and cadet In gaining for their race that liberty and a nil freedom which are aredell dell 1111 them by the British govern government government mente ment t e are tre making headway head a continuous I 1 and the British arm Is II In II a worse worle 1 today than It has hall ben been at any an ot of the war The British occupy the larger ton tow us I confess but that It Is Ital Isas as al far all as It g Boer Ha la II only a few miles 11 west of Pretoria end hu has been there for They The cannot annot drive him away and he practically hu has them besieged most of the time It If Kitchener to drive Dotha Botha Iwa away he must mut recall some of the troops that are pursuing Dewet As Ac soon loon at as ashe hl he the troops aA away from Dewet that Hoer Boer will go o on the thi rampage In short the h have hae not nol nearly enough soldiers In the country to pu lice It properly let alone fight the twenty thousand Doers In tile the field To show how flow easy ea r It Is for tor the Hoers to move through the conquered teal tar tor I 1 will cite one incident oc 00 occurred In Then the Free FreeState State tte derided decided that they would ark Kruger to go to Europe Europ and Steyn was chosen to 10 go goto to the and urge Oem Oom to togo togo go About seventy sent of us accompanied resident Steyn on his journey north northward ward And wu 0 traveled right along Ion the t edge dg ot of the h through Ih the whole length of the two to republics republic near the Portuguese border nd the had hael the coun countr try tr so II well In hand that never neer a shot was tIred fired It at our After Arter Mr Ir Steyn Sten had succeeded In In luring to go 10 to Europe I he antI and his hiM handful or of men Inen went westward through the Transvaal around Ire along the of army and reached Dewee leader laager without having come In contact with the Ihl enemy The Incident merely merel traces that I If President Steyn Sten the mot most sought after can call travel thus thu more than a thousand miles In hr the land which the pay I they have firm firmly ly h under control there must be become thing vitali vitally wrong with that stYle o of control bird said Id at Durban the theother other day that thai the Borer norell had been mu led Ild I by their rulers and that the da day had arrived when the bu burghers heNl were having their eyes opened I 1 want to say la that In all the twelve twelvemonth month menthe I 1 was war with the arm army I never heard one bet r blaming or Steyn for beginning the war Kor or did didi i 1 ever er hoar one Hoer blaming them for tor continuing the struggle I can contI confidently dently SA say that If either or both of those mon men had taken It upon Ullon them pelves to ask the burghers to o surrender during any anyone one of the grave grap crises Crill that we passed the Hoer feeling Would hf have been so outraged that they would have shot either or both of them I Lr I LI N h i This ha baa been the peoples War nut Mut that of oC the ruler The Boers Hoare run and ma may they may make th ridiculous by retreating when the hordes alan advance 1 but th they Jut y mean hy by it II no surrender They retreat 1 merely to 10 find a better r position Whellon to make a stand CAUSED IT ALL ALLIn ALLI I In do common not with the all Boet fo this War i 1 can understand that they are heartily sick Ick or of It II but that their pride can brook no defeat defea t for their army end and now that they have haP upon the war they want their tilL flag II to come OUt triumphant I do not blame the people I say ay but I 1 anti and all II the other Boer blam 1 statesmen who whorled Ild country country leto the struggle 1 a et t the I he behest bhelt of 01 t lie In men who have hae most moat to gain lala by the wu war men like lIk Rhode Helt and other political gambler who oWn the tle lold g and diamond fields or of South 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