THE BOER GENERALS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12256, 1 October 1902, Page 2

THE BOER GENERALS.

Ts'fi news received day by day with reference to the Boer generals is very perplexing. It is of a piece with the reports about South African affairs with which the public have been furnished at any time during the last four years. The only persons who can feel easy in their mind}' are those who have nnunbounded faith that all will come right, and those who, like Hr Sodden, look upon all Boers as “pizen,” as certain Americans do upon all Indians. Bnt it ig not possible for reasonable Britishers to v haye no truck ” with the Boers, for the latter now are to all intents and purposes our brethren, iu that they ate, with few exceptions, out fellow-subjects. To those who are apt to get impatient over the contradictory aocoants of the sayings and doings of Generals Botha, De'arey, and De Wet, in Europe, we would suggest that they should reflect upon the channels through which the reports pass, Bight through the war Dutch, German, and French popular feeling was distinctly pro-Boer. The fact that the British were victorious has certainly not changed that feeling. Is it not conceivable, then, that newspapers in Holland, Germany, and France, when it falls to them to record the generals’ actions and speeches, si.odd seize upon things that ate likely to please their readers, and give more prominence to them than to things favorable to Great Britain ?