BOER DISILLUSIONMENT

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7154, 19 July 1901, Page 2

BOER DISILLUSIONMENT

fHAT GERMANY WOULD DO

IN ENGLAND'S PLACE.

'"P. 5.," the. Boer resident in Englamid Vhose vitriolic letters to the "Times" about a year since, full of insensate abuse of eveiything British will be remembered, sends another epistle to our contemporary. "P. S. " has. already "found salvation " — he threw up the sponge of Afrikainderdom last October— and now he seeks to induce his brother Boers to make peace. From a letter filling nearly a column of the " Times" we ; " m'aJee the following extrafct : — ■ k '

"All nations . hat« tihe Britisb, bufc none of them love us. If we were independent and ruled from the Zambesi to Cape Tdfm other, nations^ would' conspire against ; usj and- our kn/ji ,-^ould' be their. battkfi^l«a; : ■There: is npNV: no chance of freedom-, or of safety for us save under the British flag. We have our choice now. We cant accept the position of Australia and Canada .as^an integrant of the Empire, or we *'M struggle on till \re:b© all annihilat«d. by the Eng.lish, or, worse still, 1 until to be aXk crushed under tlie iron hand of the_ German War Lord, whose little is thicker than tihe thighs of Chamiberkin, Mbi'er, and Rhodes combined. I was .utterly dismayed amd crushed by. the frantic madtoesa *of iihose superstitious fanatics who irejectedi rthose liberal terms of peace offered- by Crhamberlain in the recent negotiations. I. know what those misguided, men unfortunately cannot know. No nation- has any love for us or desire for our real independence. But they all lust for the Transvaal gold. Yeb Kruger is so infatuated! wkihi superstition that he cannot recognise the plainest facts which are daily brought, to his notice. I know that the Germans would very quickly, end the war if they were in the place of the English. Our. German- friends have a very -easy plan, for the padficafeon of South ; -Africa; It is to" -transport all the Dutch population, men, wpnMn, and children, from Africa to Kaiser Wilhelmsknd- and the Bismarck Archipelago, where rthey^cquld espepid" their energies' dn forcing new -ihijtaes and) in b^.tiung with, the natural diffioulties which wouiid surround, them. May Heaven preserve us front such, a faifce! We Afrikanders oug-ht to remember how the great Contineirtal Poweis !have treated conquered peoples, the Poles, for aistance, and then we may well thaaik Heaven we have the Britons only to .deal with. We have our chance now to end the war and! to secure a safe, honourable, and! prosperous future ior ourselves and children. jShouldl we prolong it the diay anay not be far distant when the British may be compelled to, adopt a plam sintUar to that proposed by the Germans, when the Cape, JNatal, and the two States may be cleared of -'tihieir Dutch population to-.fiH up the Britdshj portion of New Guinea. , Agadn I call upon my people to make peace at ohce, that we may all live in our own^ knd wibh our childnen in security and prosperity. We hanre but shattered 1 ourselves and cememted the foundations of the British) Empire. Chloroformed by cant and sickly sentimentality Great Britain would; have expired quietly in the course of a 'very few years if she had not been roused from her syncope, by us Afrikanders."