ROBERTS AND CRONJE.
Referring to the treatmeut of Cronje after his surrender, Mr Julian Ralph, the American war correspondent, says : — " What galls me beyond measure is the unavoidable comparison between this progress of the guerilla Cronje through the enemy's (our) country, and the manner in which Lord Roberts was obliged to make his way through the same (British) colony to the seat of war. Lord Roberts was spirited out of Capetown. The train, with a pilot engine and 30 soldiers, went out of the station to fool the rebels in this English colony into the belief that the Field Marshal was riding in it. Then the regular passenger train pulled out and picked up Lord Roberts in the suburbs. We did not dare to send our Commander-in-Chief to the front as even a private citizen travels, but we load with honours our enemy, who has plotted for 20 years to take England's possessions from her and to drive the English out of their own colonies into the sea. Let no Englishman forget this when the day of settlement comes. It is none of, my business, except that I am an American—a cousin and a friend."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6701, 19 May 1900, Page 4
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195ROBERTS AND CRONJE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6701, 19 May 1900, Page 4
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