The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-18
NOTHING LESS THAN
FREEDOM FOR Beers
Patriots Have No Thought Of
Surrender to Beers.
PRAISE FOR AMERICANS
THOSE IN THE TRANsVAAL ARE
FIGHTING LIKE PATRIOTS.


New York, April 1I--CaPtaln otto
Won Lossberg. captain of ting Second
battery, Transvaal state artillery, who
left the Boer army in January, being
meapacitated with wounds arrived
from Europe with Montague White
and is now at the Imperial hotel. He
win staEt for New. Orleans, his old
home. tonight. In an interview last
night Captain Won Lossberg said
"-I talked with General Louis Botha
before L came away. You may go
he told me You have fought we'll
give YOU your discharge. When you
come back we shall be free or fighting.
shall mi q patriot s. graVe. &C. my
boy. God be kind 70 you
Ihat IS the KIND OF men Who light
for the Boep cause continued Captain
Won Lossberg- 't,Elle English have VIC
lated every law Of civilized warfare.
They have armed 1000 kafErs. who are
N Steinacher's Horse. which is the
scum OF South Africa. They fight like
the Hessians fought you--for hire.
They get u shi1lings day They
plumber and pillage everybody, young
and old alike.
a Red Cross ambulance and started for.
LOurenz0 Marques. We were held tii5
by fifty kafifrS who wore nothing but
breech cl0uts and carried British rifles
y
turned me back to Pretoria.
II complained Of che Violation of the
Red Cross flag and robbery to the
British officers They investigated and
admitted that I had been shamefuilE
treated They promised resti tutiOn 'af-
ter the war
sYou Americans have little concep-
ton of the resources OF the Beers. Gen
erad DelareY alone has 5.000Q00 rounds
OF aHmunition. Ne have twenty guns
ANA a long Tom. The latter is hidden
for future need We need nothing but
aIubulances and supplies Our Hol-
land societies sent us, three ambulances
and houses several months ago via. Lou
renzo Marques. The British there had
them held up and they are there yet,
While our men are dying for the need
( Or them.
Harrass the British.
t0ur forces are distributed ike this.
Delarey has 5000 mem Botha. 1890;
De Net, 5000 and the rest are in flying
corps. They constantly harrass the
British Most OF orr men are fighting
south of Pretoria,
The Americafs With our army. and
5 particularly the Irish Americans. are
doing magnificent fightins. One OF the
Sixth Massachusetts regiment The
Americans prevented the capture
of our long Tom by their bravery at
EeydenbUrg. They fought like fiends
Ine EnEliSRs nave e4tVfuu0 men I1e1
mp guarding the railroad at Port Eliza.
beth. New London Durham and Cape
Town. Last November p let. of anuies
and horses for their army reaehed
Lourenzo Marques only the French
consul protested. The CieTInan aud
american eonsuis were mute PoFtu-
gal Needed the French protest. ana
made the ships unload else mere 5get Of
Portuguese territory.
The British recently desecrafed The
: Lutheran church at Rusteri5 mission.
( The TONNES took the church orgaB
/ anG while one of them played. the 0rh4
I ers. danced 10 the music with Kaffr
girls. At Lystenberg the British desc
eTa1ed q cemetery by making II a eat4
tie pen.
Our winter season begins in May
and ends in September. The Beers viii
take to the hills until il is over They
have little baggage to impede their
mobility while the British troops are
weighted down We VIII play havoc
with them when the winter sets in
The captain denied that General De
Wet is insane He is the NEST dan
gerouS insane man that England ever
COPIED with he said General De Wet
is a military genius He has made his
raw troops into one OF the best desci-
plined and f1nost dangerous forces in
the world. They love him like a father
and would follow him into the very
jaws of death..