Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-17
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B0ER ARMY HAS MUCH POWDER
TO BURN.
TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN CORPS
DID MAGNIFICENT FIGHTING FOR
THE BOER CAUsE-KAFFIRs
IN THE WAR.

New York, April 11.-Captain Otto Won
Lossburg, captain of the Second battery,
Transvaal state artillery, who left the
Boer army in January, being incapaci-
tated with wounds, arrived from Europe
with Montagu White, and is now at the
Imperial hotel. He will start for New
Orleans, his old home, tonight.
In an interview last night Captain Won
Lossburg said
Il talked with General Louis Rotha
before l came away.
You may go he told me. You have
fought we'll. l give you your discharge.
When you come back We shall be free
or fighting. l shall fill PATRIOTS grave.
Go, my boy. God be kind to YOU
That is the kind of men who fight
for the Boer cause continued Captain
Won Lossburg. The English have vio-
lated every law of civilized warfare
They have armed 5000 Kaffirs who are
in Steinaichers horse, which is the scum
of South Africa. They fight like the
Hessians fought you, for hire. They get
IL shi!ings a day. They plunder and
pillage everybody, young and old alike
When | was wounded | was put in a
Red Cross ambulance and started for
Lourenzo Marques. We were held up by
breech clouts and carried British rifles.
They took everything ~e had, and turn
ed 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 l had been shamefully treat
ed. They promised restitution after the
war.
You Americans have little conception
of the resources of the Beers. General
De Larey 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 Lourenzo MARQUES Tie Brit
ish there had them held no and they
are there yet, While our men are dying
for the need of them.
Our forces are distributed like this:
De Larey has 5000 men: Botha. 1000:
De Wet. 5000 and the rest are ir flying
corps. They constantly harass the Brit
ish Most of our men are fighting south
Of Pretoria.
THE Americans with our army. es-
pecially the Irish Americans, are doing
magnificent fighting. One of the latter
was sergeant major in the Sixth Mas
sachusetts regiment. The Irish-Amer1-
cans prevented the capture of our long
Tom by their bravery at I.eydenburg.
They fought like fiends.
The English have one hundred thou
sand men tied up guarding the railway
a. Port Elizabeth, New London, Dur
ham and capetoWn.
Last November a lot of mules and
horses for their army reached I.orrenzo
Marques. Only the French consul pro-
tested. The German and American con-
sus We're mute. Portugal needed the
French protest and made the ships un-
load elsewhere out of Portuguese terri
tory
THE British recently desecrated the
Lutheran church at Rusterly Mission"
said Captain Lossburg. The Tommies
took the church organ and while one
of them played, the others danced to
the music with Kaffir girls. At Lydsten-
berg, the British desecrated IA cemetery
by making it cattle pen.
Our winter season begins in Nav and
ENDS in September. The Beers will take
TO the hills until it is over They have
httle baggage to impede their mobility
Whlle the British troops are WEIGHTED
doWh. We will play havoc with .hem
when the winter sets i'm
The Captain denied that Genora, Do
Wet is insane.
He is the most dangerous i,s,ro.
man that England ever coped with +" b,
said. General De Wet is a miI;t,r, r..
MUS. He has made his raw troon: into
one or the best Disciplined and most
dangerous forces in the world Thev
love him like father and wou,d fouor,
MN into the very jaws of dea,tn