Show T Told old to Speak English a Boer Boer T Tweaks weaks British Of Officials Official's f Nose ROTTERDAM April 8 The S.-The The Nieuwe Courant publishes a letter letter let let- ter which an aged Boer in South Africa has written to his son giving an Intimation intimation intimation inti Inti- mation of the sentiment there in regard to the war The father who lives Inthe in inthe inthe the Orange River state writes The newspapers here have told us for months that Bulgaria and Rumania would Join the allies and make war I upon Germany and now we read with i surprise that Bulgaria Is fighting on i ithe the side of ot Germany It looks to us here as if things were not going so well with England We really do not know what to think and andI I suppose we vre will have to await de de- de We Boers do not believe that England will accomplish much judging from our own experience in inthe inthe in the last hundred years We really did believe however that Russia with her soldiers would annihilate the Germans Of course we do not know what the outcome outcome will be but Ut t seems to us that either Germany or Russia will be the coming nation Recently there came to our town where we all speak Dutch a new official official official cial from England Ohm Davie re received received re re- him at the railway station and naturally addressed him in Dutch The Englishman was highly insulted stuck his head heal out of the car window and shouted Speak English Ohm Davie replied by seizing his nose and told him that he preferred to address him himin himin himin in the Dutch language As a result Ohm Davie was fined J 5 6 25 but bui nevertheless he has a certain pride in his exploit While all the Englishmen here are naturally for their country nevertheless less very few of them have volunteered to go to the front and those thos few were men who were without employment Those who wh hold positions do not appear very anxious to enlist |