JOUBERT'S APPEAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 21 November 1899, Page 2

JOUBERT'S APPEAL.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN PEOPLE. "AN IMPUDENT PROCLAMATION." PRETORIA, via- Lorenzo Marquez , ■ ~.1. ..Is October 17. '(Router's .Special Service.) A proclamation ha« been issued by General Joiibert, making ifc known to the inhabitants of the colony of Natal and the Cape Colony that the Government ani people of this. Republic have been forced into this war by evil disposed capitalists and warlike "British Ministers, and they must now stand up and fight in the true interests of lheir independence and for the welfnro and interests of the whole of the ; South African people, irrespective of place 1 or, origin. It was not, the proclamation ' proceeds, the intention of the officers and : burghers/ to molest or pijur? any individual, orthe private property' of those" who aro friendly disposed towards us,, and desist from all hostilities against ns. If it should happen, which is not desired, that any inhabitant is harmed by the circumstances or by any casualties, the '"officers I and war council will be prepared, toMend I a willing ear to afi complaints or objections reasonably brought before them. No ] person is allowed to commit a culpable 1 act under severe, punishent. We fight for j our existenc as a nation, and we are bound ( to risk our lives and give our blood therefore. We will, however, carry on this ( war forced upon us according to civilised ( and humane usages, and under the quid- < anco oi an all-directine God. In peace may it soon come. --(Signed) P. J. Jou- < bert, Commandant General. ;