GUERILLA WARFARE.
The executive committee of the army League has published the following extracts from orders issued by General Sherman in 1864.
“You may order all your post and district commanders that guerillas are not soldiers, hut wild beasts, unknown to the usage of warfare. To be recognised as soldiers they must be enlisted, enrolled, officered, uniformed, armed and equipped by some recognised belligerent Power, and must, if detached from a main army, be of sufficient strength, with written orders from some military army commanded to do some military thing. The use of torpedoes in blowing up our cars and the road after they are not in our possession is simply malicious. It cannot alter the great problem, but simply makes trouble. Now if torpedos are found in the possesion of an enemy to our rear, you may cause them to be put on the ground, and tested by wagon loads of prisoners or, if need bo, by citizens implicated in their use. “In like manner, if a torpedo is suspected on any part of the road, order the point to tested by a carload of prisoners, drawn bj a long rope. Of course any enemy cannot complain of his own traps.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 November 1901, Page 4
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202GUERILLA WARFARE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 November 1901, Page 4
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