The Irish standard., 1901-06-08
The ZULUS AS AUX1LIARIEs.

A piece of blOOd-curdling news has
been cabled from England to this
country, and, strange to say, the Amer
lean press has no comment to offer
upon it. 1t is that 10000 Zulus have
risen UP in arms against the Beers. OF
course, the dispatch omitted to state
that the murderous sayages are auxili-
aries of the British, but that is what
they really are. The generals of King
Edward have been defeated in civil
lied warfare by the farmers of South
Africa, and this is the last resort t.
eXterminate a brave people fighting
British brigands to preserve their in
dependence in the land of their birth
The Dublin Freeman's Journal tells
the terrible story as follows:
The last horror has been added to
the British campaign against the Boer
nation. The Zulus have been brought
over the Transvaal border and un-
loosed against the soldiers of the re-
public. The details of the operations
come from a British member of the
Natal legislative assembly, and it ap-
pears that his protest has been backed
by the British premier of the Natal
government. "The natives of Zulu
land" the message states, "have been
Instructed by the military officers to
arm and invade the Vryheid districts.
Thousands of head Of Boer cattle were
brought in and handed over to Colonel
Bottomley, and the Zulus We're allowed
ten per cent of all the plumber. One
Boer, Cornelius Muller, has been seri-
ously wounded with assegais. AS re-
suit of this action, the Dinazulu and
Visibepu tribes are again on the war
path"
There is no mystery on this occasion
as to the responsibility for the re-
course of the British to the alliance of
the savage. 1t has been acknowledged
by Mr.. Brodrick, secretary Of state for
war, as the suggestion Of his majesty's
government. In reply to Mr. Bryce,
Mr.. Brodrick stated that he had sent
the following message to General
French and Lord Kitchener: "Un-
armed natives may be employed under
the direct control of Colonel Bottom
ley, or Of his officers outside Zululand,
to collect and bring in CATTLE"
The government Of fools that DELHI
erately brought about the South Afri-
can war are capable of any blind folly;
but it may not be credited to their
blindness that they thought Zulu cat
tle-raiding would be effected against
the Boer army by "unarmed natives"
They knew, and Colonel Bottomley
knew. what would be the effect of un-
loosing the Zulu hordes upon such a
task. The pretense that "unarmed Zu-
lus" could be induced to undertake the
work Is hypocritical and false. It
was put forward merely to allow the
British lingo to assume his accustomed
attitude of unctuous rectitude, while
the crime against civilization was be.
Ing perpetrated. But it is too much
even for the South African Britisher,
FLOODED though he has been by the
war-hate and the mandatory of lies
against neighbor nation. The British
premier Of Natal states that he has
sent protest after protest to the mill
tary authorities. but that he believes
Colonel Bottomley has exceeded his
instructions" But Mr. Secretary
Brodrick's instructions are clear
enough. What has followed has been
their natural consequence, and the
crime Of employing the weapons Of the
savage in their conflict with civilized
foe, which was the outstanding British