Shooting Officers.

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 127, 28 November 1899, Page 2

Shooting Officers.

Through tbe good offices of aielative who lived some years in the Transvaal I (writes a Press correspondent; enjoyed a chafe recently with a Hollander who was passing through London, en route to visit relations at the Hague. This ingenious person had no stomach for fighting him-, self, and he frankly admitted it, but he appeared, before leaving (or rather scuttling from) Pretoria to have heard a : good deal of gosip about the Boers' plans. . " We do not expect to beat you," he said 7 kindly, " but we shall tire you out." "How?" I enquired. " Well, we shall 'snipe' (as you call it) all your officers. The orders are, • Never mind the men, shoot down the officers, and the more important the officer the greater the glory ! Already, Krug<»r has advertised £(5000 apiece for the bcfdies, alive oi 1 dead, of Rhodes and Buller, and the generals will give something for any young English swell killed or captured. This isn't going to be kid-glove warfare.' " But why the vicious dead-set at officers ?" "Because we get at- yonr influential women folk that way. Dr Leyds says every smart young officer killed sets a dozen English women at least squealing and squeaking. When we have killed enough they wi 1 say, ' What is the wicked war about. What care we for the Transvaal? Give it to the Boers, and let us keep our brothers arid lovers and . husbands." "A very notable scheme, Mr Bpmpje," said I, " but I fancy our patience will last out yours.!'