The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
RUSSIA WILL STOP
THE CRUEL WAR.
She is After Trade and her Policy
Demands Immediate Peace In
the TransVaaL
BY P. Louter Vessels, Special Agent
South African Republic

BY P. Louter vessels. Special Agent
South African Republic
There are two reasons why England
will never conquer us. One IS that ten
Tommy Atkinses are no more than a
,7,afel, for one Boer. The skirmishes or
the war prove this As we can nlopl-
lie 100000 men easily, it means Eng
land would have to send 1,oVo OUO SOL
diers to be on even terms with US IN
Besides we would have the advantage
in being on the defensive in our own
well-knOwn country, almost hhpieS-
nably fortified by nature to say nothlns
of the many pitfalls we ourselves nave
digged.
Secondly, the war will be ended in six
months. This may sound strange, con-
sidering the present British advances
and the reports sent out by England
from South Africa. But it is true.
And the war will be ended by the
withdrawal of British troops from the
republics. The Beers will have the
same liberty they enjoyed before war
was declared. Otherwise we would
fight until there We're no Beers to be
deprived of their liberty. we Beers
will never be slaves
/ do not mean to say that the Beers
themselves will end the war by supe-
rior force of arms. While we cannot
be conquered. neither may we hope 10
defeat the hundreds of thousands OF
men England can pour into South
Africa.
1t is Intervention to which we look
for succor. We had hoped America
might say Nor to England, but your
Presidents efforts have been fruitless
Russia is the nation to which we now
turn. And we feel assured it is not IN
vain. From advices from my own gov
eminent, 1 can state that inside OF SIX
months it is confidently expected by
President Kruger and President Steyn
that Russia win declare war on Eng
land unless the war in South Africa IS
stopped. England will refuse ana an
Anglo-Russian war viii follow IN
which Continental Europe and probably
the United States may be drawn. rms
to me, is as certain as that the sun
will rise tomorrow.
1t is the intention of the republican
forces not to force big decisive battle
if 1T may be prevented, but they hope
to harass and impede Gen. Lord Rob
ers advance on Pretoria, so that he
Will be still many miles away When
Russia's Intervention does come.
The first big battle of the war, if it
cannot be avoided under President
Kruger's policy, I am informed will be
near WVnburg. The exact place is I'M
determined, of course, owing to Lord
Roberts route northward being I'M
known to US. And, of course, l would
not tell the exact place, as it would
convey most valuable information to
the English generals.
/ will say, however, that, despite the
English reports of BOer retreat, Lord
Roberts will find a most considerable
body of men opposed to him not far
from Wynburg-
The fall of BloemfoEtein has not
much of significance, and that Frazer
and few officials delivered the keys Of
the town over does not indicate that
our Free State Beers were divided
Frazer was an English candidate in
the Rad He represents the town of
BlOemfontein, where there was quite
a number of English people, and it was
this class who welcomed Roberts
troops.
Our losses to date are not over 5000,
killed, wounded and prisoners, includ-
ing Gen. Cronje's surrendered command
of 1920 men. The English losses in
killed, wounded and prisoners is over
10000 men, This is true, notwithstand-
ing the English reports. 1 know it.
The English generals pervert the
truth, enlarge English successes and
expand BOer reVerSeS for political ends.
We have English telegraph operators
at the Cape in our pay and know the
real situation.
We are constantly getting more am
munition in substantial lots We have
just placed an order for 10000 pounds
of ammunition. This will need a ship
and we may not receive it. But we
have enough anyway.
RUSSIA AFTER TRADE, TOO.
Russia wants the South African trade
as much as England. She has a policy
of commercial expansion as we'll as
England The barren Arctic regions are
not to be her boundaries forever. Marx
my words, and they are not idle, Rus
STA VIII say mo emphatically
There was a tendency Throughout
South Africa among the Dutch to try
and smooth down difference between
the English and Dutch in order to unit,
and bring about an arrangemen
whereby they could become one Soutl
African nation although the Englisl
followed depressing policy from tn
beginning. Instead of trying to unit
the TWO races she executed a partia
policy, and the Dutch had for a lonj
time no representative on the jury nov
in parliament in the Cape Colony.
If the minerals had not been discov
cred England would never have deeme
the country worth while having am
would have been glad if the Beers wer
annihilated by the powerful BARBARA
tribes.
The capitalists, of whom Mr. Rhode
was the leader backed by the presen
foreign colonial policy of England, con
spired against the republic and organ
lied the Johannesburg rebellion an
Jameson raid under a pretense that tn
laws of the Transvaal were unsatis
factory.