The Mythical Greener.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6788, 3 September 1900, Page 4

The Mythical Greener.

HIS FATHER STATES HE NEVER

SERVED THE BOERS,

Ono of the unsolved mysteries produced by the war in South Africa is that concerning tho whereabouts of ex-Sor-geant-Major Greener. The übiquitous person has been reported home in various sensational rolea. Ho was said to have been captured by Lord Methuen at tho Modeler River, after li 9 bad !aught tho Boers the gentle art of treuoh making, for which service iho Transvaalers had paid him handsomely, Lord Molhuon had, according to the cables, sent him in chains to Capetown, where he was shot by order of courtmartial ; Lord Roberts had condoned Qreener'a alleged military offences— defalcations aud desertion —and had utilised him as a spy againot his erstwhile Transvaal employers; and finally the tran:porfc Montocigle hnd brought him homo in close confinement, screening him from his former comrades on board for fear of the bodily harm they might do the alleged trai'or. Now comes Greener's father, a respectable, honest, old man, who lives in a quiet village of Norfolk, and says his son has not been in South Africa sioco he served his Queen honourably in Bechuanaland many years ago. He asserts that the former Aldcrshot balloonist had not been in the service of the Boprs during the war; that he is more sinned against thtn sinning; that the WarOfTieG could easily have arrested him after the Alderohot balloon scandal, if they had so desired, for he was in London over two months, and he finally quotes a letter recoiyed from hia son recently—where he is he does not state —in which occurs ihe passage: "I would willingly give half the remaining years of my life to be on the old campaigning erouud and ftiike a blow for the old flag with my comrades in the Engineers," The War Office confirms the stalemeuts of the elder Greener. The ex-sergeant-major has neither been captured from the Boers, shot as a traitor, employed as a spy, nor sent home for trial.—Daily Mail.