GENERAL BEYERS'S TREACHERY TO BRITAIN.
WORDS RECALLED ON HIS VISIT TO ENGLAND. BOERS WOULD PROVE WORTHY OF EMPIRE'S CONFIDENCE. Loxdox, October 28. General Beyers visited England in 1912 and spoke in public of the deep appreciation of the Boers at the confidence reposed in them by the Imperial Government. He was certain that they would prove worthy of such confidence. He attended the German war manoeuvres as the Kaiser's guest, and studied German Army methods. It was well known in South Africa that strong opposition existed to taking the offensive against German South-west Africa, not. Only among the Hertzogites, but among the burghers supporting the Government, particularly in the western district of the Transvaal, in g Orangia, and in some of the Cape districts. This section declared v that they would fight to the last if the Germans invaded .the Union, . . but saw no reason for taking the field themselves.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15753, 30 October 1914, Page 7
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150GENERAL BEYERS'S TREACHERY TO BRITAIN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15753, 30 October 1914, Page 7
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