Boer Leaders.

Manawatu Herald, 18 September 1902, Page 2

Boer Leaders.

The Boer Generals are urging their reconcilables to restrain their antiBritish propagando, and recommend a policy of reconciliation. They express a disinclination to lecture, on the ground that they are- 1 unacquainted with.-i European languages,and,,;6qj3 it diflSpult to frame speeches! ' ! ' Mr Fischer and others, in replying to the objections of the General?, ", 'J quote the views of French and Get- . ; i man pro-Boer societies that the visit • of the Generals alone, with the delivering of speeches, will not office i to raise money. r ‘ V Mr Reitz, on the 25tb inat._ starts . ,■ on a lecturing tour in America, the' proceeds to ha devoted. to ; hia own maintenance and to the aid of th© , Boers. . 1 ' /It is stated ’in- Brtusds'that Mr , Chamberlain, in.a ■’* enqe, show,ed f a th© greatest goodwill, 'aatF.promised to do his utmost to increase. sie,finan-' ' cial aid to the ruined Boers. MrV Chamberlain added that Britain’s generosity was dependent 'upon, proof of the loyalist feelings o| the , Boevs. " ! -.'.f The Boer Generals are negotia-. ; - ting with Netherlands .hankers for . v the establishment of a mortgage " 1 • bank in South Africa. ‘ - jM Dr. A. Kuyper, the 'Netherlands ‘-q Premier, induced the visiting Boer ,-,‘j Generals to abandon' Mr Kruger's irreconcilable policy. . ~ 's!