Guerilla Warfare.

Manawatu Herald, 8 February 1902, Page 2

Guerilla Warfare.

Guerilla warfare, it should be remembered, said the Hon. C* C. Bowen, in a speech at Christchurch last week was. exceedingly hard for any army to put down. In Spain, Napoleon, with all his forces, bad never been able to put an end to it at all. Spain was a small country in comparison to South Africa, where it was a question of tremendous marches and long distances, and where, in fact, waging war was like carrying on a campaign from Paris to the borders of Russia, with

I Switzerland and its mountains tbrowzffß in. The Boer themselves were a doggedly resolute people, who knew every inch of the country, aad who when hard pressed buried, their rifles and appeared to be honest burghers, taking their guns up again afterwards. It was hard to put down such a people, but he believed, as many men at Home > did, that the campaign would -be sooner brought to a conclusion if ignerant persons generally, and the ignorant Boers themselves, understood that England was absolutely determined to put an end to the trouble for ever. But while there were men ( acting upon their self-conceit at the \ expence of their country, and talking what would in most countries be called treason, the ignorant would always think we were not in earnest.