PUMPING A KAFFIR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6714, 5 June 1900, Page 4

PUMPING A KAFFIR.

Several instances Inw occnired recently which show that those higti in authority in South Africa are not averse to officers receiving sly hints as to the manner in which scouting, etc, is carried out. The latest appeai-3 in the Friend, the paper in Bloemfontein which the war correspondents carry on. Under the heading of "fables for the Staff," a recent issue of the journal tells the following story of the ways of the Intelligence Department:—" An Intelligence Officer, meeting a strayed Kaffir without visible Means of Subsistence, reprobated him for a Spy, and forthwith cast him into gaol for two days. At the Expiration of his incarceration the Kaffir fell into the hands of a Discerning Colonial, who filled him with Cape Smoke, and engaged him in idle Persiflage for three Hour?, 'My Word!' said the Colonial, when the grateful Son of Ham had departed, That Ethiop is full to his back teeth of most valuable Information ! Let us give him a, new coat and a pound of tobacco/ On the contrary, said the LO , 'he is a Wastrel and a SkLnker. He cannot reply to direct Questions, and habitually contradicts himself.' 'That,' I said the Discerning Colonial, 'is just' It, i am about to act upon his inaccuracies.' This the Colonial did with great Success, and wiped out Seven of the Enemy advancing up a Spruit in the Cool of the Evening. On reporting his Achievement, the Intelligence Officer reported the Colonial for supplying the Kaffir with Illicit Liquor, j Moral,—Oh Oresar :"