HOW LONG WILL THE WAR LAST?

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4764, 23 June 1900, Page 4

HOW LONG WILL THE WAR LAST?

As to how long tbe war will yet i last is (says tbe Jl Daily Telegraph " \ correspondent writing from Cape Town) here as much a matter of speculation and argument as it is likely to be in England. Judging the Boers and their resources from tlie same standpoint, as if we were considering any other b&lf-beaten nation, we should imagine it impossible they could make much further organised resistance against an enemy now so overwhelmingly prepared and equipped. On the other hand, many who should know the Boers best (and there are numbers round us who have lived for years in the Transvaal) hold that they will continue to fight, and to the bitter end. How soon and how bitterly that end may be forced upon them it is not easy to foretell, nor was it in the case of Cronje and his crew. Guerilla warfare there will certainly" be — perhaps for a prolonged period ; and those who know are prone to allude confidently to the rough northern regions of the > Transvaal. The tenacity and bull- | dog courage of Ihe Boers has been amply proved ; and, apparently, it ib barrily an argument to urge that they i have no longer before them the pros- , pect they had before them when they • went gaily to war with vs — viz., tbjat they would drive tbe English into the sea, and clear South Africa for themBelves. They will fight to the death we are assured.