The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-04-18
BRITISH MISCONDUCT.
Grave Charges Made by American Cap
tain Who Served With the Beers.

NEW YORK, April 17.-Captain Otto
Won Lossburg. captain of the Second
battery. Transvaal state artillery, who
left the Boer army in January. being
incapaciated with wounds, arrived from
Europe with Montague White and is
now at the Imperial hotel. He will
start for New Orleans, his old home,
tonight In an interview he said:
Il talked with General Louis Botha
before came away. You may go he
told me: YOU have fought well. give
YOU your discharge. When you come
back We shall be free or fighting. l
shall ill patriots grave. Go, my boy.
God be kind to you
That's the kind of men who fight
for the Boer cause" continued Captain
Won Lossburg. The English have vio-
oIated every law of civilized warfare.
They have armed five thousand Kaffirs
who are in Steinacher's Horse, which is
the scum OF South Africa. They fight
like the Hessians fought you-for hire.
They get twelve shillings a day They
plumber and pillage everybody, young
and old alike.
When | was wounded / was put in
a Red Cross ambulance and started for
LOurenco Marques. We were held up
by fifty Kafiirs. who wore nothing but
breech clouts and carried British rifles.
They took everything We had and
turned me back to Pretoria.
Il complained Of the violation of the
Red Cross flag and robbery to the Brit
ish officers. They investigated and ad-
mitted that had been shamefully
treated. They promised restitution
after the war. You Americans have
little conception of the resources Of the
Beers. General Delarey alone has three
million rounds of ammunition. We
have twenty guns and long Tom. The
latter is hidden for future need. We
need nothing but ambulances and our
supplies.
Our Holland societies sent US three
ambulances and horses several months
ago via Lourenco Marques The British
there had them held up and they are
there yet, while our men are dying for
the need of them.
Our forces are distributed like this:
Delarey has six thousand men; Botha,
four thousand; De Wet five thousand
and the rest are in flying corps. They
constantly harass the British. Most Of
our men are fighting south of Pretoria.
The Americans with our army and
particularly the Irish-Americans are
doing magnificent fighting. One Of the
latter was a sergeant-majo in the
Sixth Massachusetts regiment The
Irish Americans prevented the capture
of our long Tom by their bravery at
Leydenburg. They fought like fiends.
The English have 100000 men tied up
guarding the railroad at Port Elizabeth,
New London. Durham and Cape Town
Last November a lot of mules and
horses for their army reached Lourenco
MARQUES Only the French consul pro-
tested. The German and American con-
suls were mute. Portugal needed the
French protest and made the ships un-
load elsewhere out of Portuguese ter
ritory.
THE British recently desecrated the
Lutheran church at Rusterly mission.
The Tommes took the church organ
and while one of them played he 9TH
ers danced to the music with Kaffir
girls. At Lystenberg the British desc
Grated a cemetery by making it a cat
tie pen.
Our winter season begins in May and
ends IN September. The Beers will take
to the hills until it is over. They have
little baggage to impede their mobility
While the British troops are weighted
down. We shall play havoc with them
when the winter sets in"
The captain denied that General De
Wet is insane.
''He is the most dangerous insane
man that England ever coped with" he
said, General De Wet is a military
genius. He has made his raw troops
into one of the best disciplined and most
dangerous forces in the world. They