Notes and Comments.
A Colonial officer in South Africa! who commands a body of colonial troops, and who has HOW the War been at the front is Conducted since the war began, writing to a friend in Singleton, N.S.W., says:—“lwish the war was over. lam sick and tired of it, much as I love my profession, as you know. The mismanagement is awful, and w< ro I to tell what I know I should got into no end of a scrape. It is awful to see our mon being shot down-—murdered —by the cowardly Boers, and we daren’t retaliate for the sake of public oninion. Has anyooe to go hungry ? If so, it is the British Tommy who is put on half rations in order that Boer prisoners mav get full ones. Bah ! Nice encouragement to fight cowards who murder ps in cold blood.”—The pro Boers blame Britain for commencing the war. But many people would not like to stand in. those people’s shoes if called upon to answer for this public opinion (?) which causes the war to drag along, and results in tho death—--often in a cowardly manner —of so many brave men.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22472, 5 December 1901, Page 2
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