THE BOER GENERALS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 230, 2 October 1902, Page 2

THE BOER GENERALS.

THE VISIT TO BERLIN.

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Berlin, September gO.

The newspapers, in announcing that the Kaiser will give an audience to the Boer Generals "assoldiers," urge that such a course cannot offend Great Britain, inasmuch as he will be giving an audience to British subjects.!'

The report that the Kaiser will grant an audience is not confirmed, but one organ which is often inspired declares that, the Generals having solemnly dissociated themselves from any political agitation or demonstration, the Kaiser will receive them if they are the bearers of credentials from the British Government.

General De Wet declares that the rumour as to the intentions of the Generals is premature.

The Times doubts if the Generals would be so imprudent as to seek an audience, and thinks it hardly credible that the Kaiser, who is a statesman of great experience and tact, contemplates a step which would arouse deep indignation throughout the British Empire. London, September 30. General Botha, speaking at Rotterdam, said: "We were driven to make peace by hunger and the sword. We made peace, however, and, like men, we wish to abide by that peace, know ing that the Lord God disposes of all."

The Berlin correspondent of The Times quotes newspapers to show that Germany is tiring of the Boer appeals and rustic cunning, as embodied in the Generals' manifesto.