Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-12

we must defend the other.
DEWEr SUPERIOR TO KITCHEN
Err.
know that you will say that Dewet
and his small army cannot contend
mucb longer against the vast forces OF
| ford Kitchener Dewet Is as far SUI
nerior 10 Kitchener IN military strategy
as Nanoleon was 10 the most ignorant
colder I'm his army. That Is a broad
Statement but Dewet proved II sew.
eral Zines 10 the great moruhcation OF
the hero Of omdurman'
For three months Kitchener with an
army OF almost forty thousand men,
tried 10 capture us, and Dewet laughed
AZ his efforts and incidentally captured
Srom him al Rooidaal IN June sufficient
winter clothing for every burghcr IN
he army 400 shells and enough small
arms ammunition TO last his forces
for three years. And Dewet did this
with less than Ave thousand men!
Since last June the entire Boar army
has been supported by the British tax
payer Almost every single rifle IN the
Roer army was captured from the Brit
fish I'm battles every cartridge ana smell
used I'm our fights since June was taxi
on from the British, all Of our com.
nissarlat supplies for man and horse
were taken from the British. When
over there is q lack OF anything I'm our
camp we sally forth and take It from
the British.
The English taxpayers are fdrn!shIns
tho sinews for both armies IN South
Africa and so long as the Beers can
secure the necessities of war so cheap
lv and easily they need have no fear
that the national treasury must issue
bonds TO carry on the struggle
The Beers win continue the war by
harassing their enemy continually, Tor
years II need be They VIII make II
necessary to keep a mighty force In
the country, and sooner or later Eng
land will realize that she cannot at
ford 10 spend Sj000000O0 year year at
ter wear when none of her citizens eN-
cent a clique Of mining men can eX-
pect to gain anything by the vast eN-
pendture
ALLEGED BRITISH BARBARlTIES.
Even now, six months after the an
nexation Of the republics, the Beers
are I'm such complete control OF the
whole country that the two hundred
thousand soldiers Of the queen cannot
wander from their garrison towns eN-
cept I'm bodies almost as large as our
whole army. Dewet and the other
generals will continue TO make attacks
upon the railways and garrisons, they
viii make incursions into Cape Colony,
where their Afrikander brethren are
becoming daily more bitter against the
government which Is constantly max
ing their lot more uncomfortable and
they will continue 10 outwlt their op-
ponents at every point, always bearing
in mind that when their ammunition
and food are exhausted the British tax
payer is ready to furnish more.
The British army's practice OF de-
strOying the farms Of the Beers has
done almost as much as anything 10
keep the burghers in the field II II
a policy which Is probably sanctioned
by the laws of warfare when carried
out I'm a discriminating manner hut
to my mind the British destroy prop
erty useesslv. almost wantonly The
territory OF the two republics is dotted
with the embers and ruins OF the
homes Of men who were Boer leaders
before the war.
The homes OF scores Of the Volksraad
members 81 the Free state and the
Transvaal have been destroyed for the
simple reason that the British blamed
these men for having brought on the
war. and not because the army could
gain any advantage or teach a lesson
by the destruction / could cite the
names OF scores Of men whose farm
houses have bene destroyed by the
British because Boer commanders have
passed over the farms.
Now. Il IS as impossible for a sins',
farmer to prevent Boer commando OF
several thousand men from passing
over his vast lands as It Is for citizen
Of New York 10 prevent flock ot birds
flying over the city. Yet the proclama.
tion Of Lord Roberts says that
farm over which tho Boer forces have
passed must be destroyed II stands
to reason that when a burgher with tho
army knows that his farm Is destroyed
and that his wife and children are scat.
tered, God knows whore, he will prefer
70 remain with the forces in the field