Six thousand Hottentots armed with rifles have concentrated to oppose the German forces in South-west Africa. The Ru-rinn journals which circulated every anti-British fable they could get hold of during the Boor war are now crying out that the British journals are not doing justice to Russia in connection with the Japanese war. From its “Russian correspondents. “The Tiroes” has received a long extract- from tne “Kovoe Vreraya,” which in form and substance is an accusation of deliberate unfairness in comment hurled at the head of the British press. “There are moments,” we are told, "when one is roused to fury, and tempted to fling away these lying sheets” (of the English press) “which so shamelessly and vulgarly caricature the true position of affairs.” During Die Boer war ono of the tricks played by Russian papers when they got hold of illustrations in the English press showing Boers on the r an was to lift the picture and substitute British for Boer.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5372, 3 September 1904, Page 11
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