No Englishmen Wanted.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13438, 9 November 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

No Englishmen Wanted.

PIN-PRICK POLICY OP THE BOER GOVERNMENT.

The plan of the Boer Government of the Transvaal to get rid of all the Englishmen in the South African Constabulary and replace them by Boers >is causing great indignation among the men at home on leave, who have been warned! by »Sir Richard the Tarnsvaal Agentgeneralj that if they return they, do so at t>he risk of dismissal. , One of the officers who was just about to return after completing six months' leave in England said that he had been informed in a letter from a friend* in South Africa that 900 men would be discharged fpom the Constabulary before long owing to the work of the Het,.Volk. "I wrote for my discharge on receiving S'ir Richard Solomon's letter," he said, "and I shall stay in England. 1 was in Jphannesburg once or twice not very long ago and I saw hundreds of men there out of work. "If you ask me who is to blame for all • this, I say the British people, who permit themselves to be blown about here and there by every puff of wind." Trooper P. Hooper, who came home on April Ist last, having obtained his discharge after six and a-half yeans' service, said he had been stationed latterly 20 mikb from Krugersdorp, on the veldt. "Everybody from this country in the service of the Transvaal Government," he said, "has suffered more or less from the pin-prick policy of the Boers. I had enough nf it, and that is why I took my discharge, although 1 had taken the trouble to become proficient in the Dutch language. "They have all gob rifles —service rifles. A man had to get a rfcommendation from the police before he could secure a gun; bub I have never known a case in which the recommendation was withheld."