LIGHT ON THE GUERILLA WAR?.

Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 865, 26 January 1901, Page 4

LIGHT ON THE GUERILLA WAR?.

John Stuart has (St. James'fi SaGizclte says) an interesting and highUyt pljinstruetive article in the Morning Post "nj ra'ho guerilla phase ot Hie war. JVIr Stuarll ffiaiias had a lung and varied exDuriencc of| HSoutli Atricai: life in ail i's phasct :- § HBotru, says Mr Stuart, i< little botteij s3iian a prisoner in the hands of hi-E H'' friends." The fighting Boers have re-| gbarded him with ixlreme suspicion evcifi fa-; nee he entered into negotiations \tithg |{pL.ord Roberts, for they declare tint those? HJuegotiatiens included a secret proposal gju'i'icli would have benefited Botha at the? Eai!xpi:nse of his countrymen. It is itii-l ■possible to say with any certainty who isK fcr the few operations which f ; whave been directly lately from the Boerfi Sjheadquaiters. All I know is that r.t ting §)'ast council of war whi-h Mr Krugoijjj wlicld in his railway cirriiiL'e •■•(, NCI Spruir.E fcjjLouis Botha proposed a general submis. [i H-ion. Alter a violent see-ao with tlu| SjPresident he was unanimously put-v.ited,p Sjven his broth.-r Christian and his oldjj gjtriend and partner in many a curiouss Sjpieue oS business, Mr Lucas Meyer, de-| Bn ertiug him. I uhn know that since llia'S Eg! late some of Mr Botha's lela'imis wling Reside near Grcvtown, in N.'t.il, haven 08'iocn informed through the usual Bocr| [sHunderground sources that Mr Botha is| Kglield under strict guard in a renotc p>rt| gjof the country, it.iti therefore judge thai! gfj'he acts committed in his name are icallyS iw'he acts of Mr Schalk Burner, Mr LucasS Mr Ben Viljoen, nnd a few o hers.B f|! The correspondent expresses the beliefs Iflthat if l)e Wet were dead or a prisone'lj gS'he brigandage which is now ranipatit in 6 aSthe Transvaal and in the Kiver Colony* SEv.onld not cease on that account. Theß Psnumber of I'oers in the tieid is beint' eon ft'J3)Santly swelled by young-*, is from thesf frjjWestern Province of Capo Colony. This® p:3 due to the women and tie pa sons.j.'' HJOhviously, a v.mttJii who ran eiy, as-d* g'shakc her ti-t in t*i - - face of her yoiingeil K-on hicau-e In i- rot humping a lifle onR Shis blood hint bets an! their lost e|iu-e,» gts a great political f.iree : Mid that par-g ftjticuiar manifestuti f femininity hlk S doing a deal of mischief in the colony. fc 1 Mr Stuart, after stating that arms an«ig E ammunition still largely smugaled top fpthe Bopfs through Delagoa B y and Cap |; gTown it-elf. says :—" The danger whichgi |j< i anticipate, ami widen will become assj fi eery real danger unless strong audbj ffipron.pt measnrt.l be taken, is not an or-tf ianised rebellion in the Cape Colony.Kj Nobody wdio knows the coioni.il Boer'sßS inxiety for Irs own skin would cxpeelJK hat. What I am afrai.l of—and theH peril is nearer than we teem to imigiutKJ —is the extension of this vague gUcrillaK brigandage to an indefinite number nfn ~, colonial districts. If there be any sorilf fj>f rebellion in the Cape Colony it willKJ sj'oilow the plan of rebellion whiclp' B'las heen adopted in the dtfuuet r. Ilies. f| S The remedy for all thia ij simple. 6y HEvcryßoer who has borne arms againstKj Bus, whether he resides in a town or on|| aiiin farm, should be deported to a laagetiw gin the coast, nod that iaatrer should noi|fj situated in a district where the popu-K s"jiace sympathises with the late Repub-fig! Sjlics. Every fresh prisoner r.f war She gaol d. I should also herd the wonienK land children into sep irate laagers—oltei ijoourse, tteatiitg them well. And, especi-K gaily so far as the Cape. Colony is cou-bm Seemed, do noS spare the parson whora flabaudous doctrine for politics. If a, fewffl fjof them were laid by the heels a surpi'is-fi| ning amount of gnod would be done.tpj HKaturally I anticipate the gof martial law in the Cape Colony withinra Si W(ck. It should have, been |> year ago. . |