THE COMING WAR.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 2091, 30 September 1899, Page 2

THE COMING WAR.

Due: Boer war baa almost commenced. Nothing short of the miraculous can >tave;tff the imj. ending collision. The c'oi'ces .are armed and confront one inoiher. Alt the elements of strife ire aroused and the war seems inevitable. The conditions on each side .aye been much spoken of and dwelt 11 m larger space than we can give it. ■Ye have on the one side the Boers - ignorant, obstinate men, carried uvay by racial hatred and sustained •y a bigotry that would have been cermed sublime had it occurred ia anj ige but this. They are perfect .rregular soldiers - skil ed m marksmanship, adepts m t. king cover, and >wift ia movement. Each man ie acquainted with the country that peculiarly lends itself to the man jeuvres of his gu'rrilla method of varfare Ag.iiust them they have the v«»ll-driUed troop 3 of Englaud, wh'j will, however, behimpered b> iwprdi tnenta and unaccustomed to the country, and who, le«s skilful m the uark manship th it distinguishes their opponents, must needs suffer severely oefore the Union Jick waves again al Pretoria, where it was once trampled by burgher feet, and English rights be igain asserted at Johannesburg, where to be a Briton is to suffer insult and earn disgrace. Bu^, whatever be the jost, Eugland must win and again ißßert the supremacy that Mr Gladstone so weakly surrendered. Thsre has been a rush among the colonies to volunteer for service m the Transvaal Already Canada has organised her .detachment, and a detachment from the Australasi-m colonies seems » ikely thing. As a moral factor suuh help ia invaluable. It proves that ia our Ecipiro of to day the proud boast of the old Roman, Civis Romanum Sum — I am a lloin.m ciciz.n — ia applicable. Though men may ?cofE and sneer, by far the larjer number oi: tnglioh hexrts realise ttiat to be a member of the British Emp re confers rights and privileges worth lighting for, and the country honors those whoare. prepared to prove to tho utmost the}? appreciation, of, rjgkto bmfa&