BOER BOY HERO.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —I read with shame and indignation the story of the above in your issue of Saturday last. It is unthinkable that an officer and (presumably) a gentleman could so far forget the honourable traditions of the British Army ns to try, by mental torture, to induce a child of twelve to turn dog on his father and the brave nation to which he belonged. ' Surely General Seely could have kept to himself the details of the incident, instead of broadcasting them, per medium of his War Book, to a world already fed up with the infamies of the Great War. I can safely say that no colonial troops would have furnished the firing party, or have allowed the boy to be threatened. Generals Botha and Smuts could only feel proud of their young countryman. I wonder what they thought of us.—Yours, etc., AN OFFICER WHO SERVED IN SOUTH AFRICA.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 6, 7 December 1931, Page 9
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156BOER BOY HERO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 6, 7 December 1931, Page 9
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