The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-24
He Makes Radical Charges Against
the British Officers Fighting
in south Africa.
CALLS CHAMBERLAIN NAMES
SAYS ENGLISH OFFICERS WEAR EYE
GLASSES AND ARE DUDES.
Advice Concerning Treatment of Ne
grOes - Prepared Resolutions
Adopted by the Meeting.

Possibly two hundred people sat in Tom
linson Hall last night and heard Jan Krige,
a typical Boer, condemn all things British.
The size of the audience hardly justified
Mayor Bookwalter's assertion, made in IN
PRODUCING the unofficial envoy, that the SEN
timent of the State and city is in favor of
the Beers.
Jan Krige is a commandant who did some
fighting with General Botha, and after
wards, being pushed TO the wall escaped
from the country 10 do missionary work
in the United States. He has spoken in
many of the cities of this country, his ex-
penses being literally met by clubs of Bocr
sympathizers. Last night his talk was d.
rected mainly toward arousing sentiment
against the procuring of horses and mules
by the British government in this country.
His speech was choI'py and disconnected,
a series of highly-colored anecdotes filled
with bitter accusations against the officers
and men of the British armies in South At
RIGA. His talk aroused some enthusiasm
among the few who were present.
II am here" he said. Ito deny the many
false statements and the lies that the Brit
ish have spread over the world by means
of subsidized cables and newspapers. There
are rumors of peace. you have heard, but
those rumors originate in London, and
there never will be peace until every Eng
lishman has been run out of our country
1 am here to ask you to preserve strict
neutrality. to keep your hands Off 1 was
in New Orleans a few days ago, and 1t
made my heart bleed to see thousands of
British horses and mules ready for ship
ment on the camp grounds that Jackson
used when he whipped the British at the
battle of New Orleans.
England has pursued a consistent policy
of crushing the lives out Of weaker ma
tions. She slips out of chances TO fight ma
tions as big and as strong as herself; only
the other day she let Russia defy her with
a battery of artillery in Manchuria. She
has succeeded in that cowardly policy In
India and in Africa, but with us she will
never succeed, and we are in better fighting
trim right now than ever before. Still, you
people sit and look on while England is
crushing Us because you are bound by her
smooth diplomacy. Why, it is known that
a secret alliance exists between your gov
eminent and that of the British.
ENGLAND'S POLICY.
England began to shove us back imme-
in 1850. First we were pushed out of Natal,
then out of the Free State, and now she is
trying TO steal our land because it contains
the richest diamond mines in the world.
In fact, she has deliberately stolen those
mines. We were paid $4,000 for them, but
that represents only the weekly output of
the great De Beers mines. We have not
submitted tamely to her aggressions. We
and other bloody places, but that has
taught her nothing
England has always despised us and
called us dirty brutes. She thought so
little Of us that she sent DR.. jameson with
500 men to do the work that she is now
trying to do with 10000 men and cannot
achieve. Long before the war broke out
knew it was coming. because England
had shipped 10000 men and placed them on
our borders We thought we had better
make some preparations ourselves, and we
began to buy rifles in Germany and can
mons in France. One of the things we did
was to buy thirty-two tons of powder from
Joe Chamberlain's Birmingham factories,
and we are using that powder now IN
shooting down British troops
Here Krige gave some advice as to how
negroes should be treated, and told how
the Beers act toward the blacks in South
Africa. I'VE don't give them equality at
ALL he said. 1--WE pay them for what they
do, give them a good night and a good day.
and if they give us back talk we knock
treat negroes. Treat them like men,"
He INDUCED in a number of ironical allu-
sions to the fame gained by British officers
cured" he declared, mainly because of
their mastery retreats" His characterize
ton of British officers was as follows:
They are lot of nincompoops and fools,
wearing eyeglasses and smoking cigar
cites" The best of them, he said, have all
been killed or sent nome, and IL is only the
dudes and the leavings Of the slums of
hot oafr 10
asserted that it is a common practice of
theirs TO kill and outrage women and to
burn the houses wherein are no persons
but old crippled men and defenseless
women and children. He said that the
common soldiers of the British armies are
weary of the war, and that many of them
fire in the air when they are ordered to
fight.
WHY THEY ARE KILLED.
"You have noticed" he said, that the
death rate among the officers of the Brit
ish is far out of the ordinary. Do you
know why that is? 1t is because the MIN
compoop officers are killed by their own
men, who despise them and sympathize
with the Beers" British kilograms report
ing captures and giving lists of the enemy
killed and wounded are exaggerated, he
said, and are false from beginning to end
The only kilograms in which there is any
truth, he said. is the kind that Lord Kitch-
ener is so fond of sending: de Wet es-
capped again. taking with him 400 Dublin
Fusiliers. If he has not gone north he has
certainly gone south Am on his track.
THE British are starving and maltreat-
ing thousands of delicate women and chill
dren in their horrible reconcentrado
camps he shouted. They are driving
innocent noncombatants into these awful
pest holes by the thousands. You people
should write 10 your congressman asking
welt would have to do would be 10 say
Stop and there would be few more shots
fired in the war. We only fight to-day be-
cause we are waiting for American help
and aid
After giving a description of "kopje war
fare he said that the methods of fighting
have changed in the field since the first
few months of the struggle. Then the En-
glish came against the Beers in solid
masses and were terribly punished. he said.
but now they have profted b. experience
and have no objection TO taking the same
precautions that the Beers do themselves
in lighting from behind rocks and stumps.
British artillery he said. is ineffective
against Beers lighting behind kopjes and
their lyddite, cordite and dynamite shells
do little harm. The Beers fight differently,
too. Old General Cronje was a sort OF
bulldog who wouldn't run away. but De
Wet and Delarey have adopted different
tactics. They fight only when they are in
force and run when they have not enough
men 10 make a showing.
This war was the death knell OF Eng
lands old Queen and II will be the death
De Wet said when they burned his house
over his wifes head: That house cost me
e7O0, but | will make il cost the British
taxpayer s7.0o0,Ooo. and he has kept his
word.
Krige declared that Chamberlain is an
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