KRUGER'S OBSTINACY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 20, 17 July 1900, Page 1

KRUGER'S OB STINACY.

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Kroner's la-e^t boast that he will continue fighting so long as five hundred remain alive will be received with more respect to-day-than ifc would hnve been two ol v tiuoe month:: soo. The obsfciuate o!d man Ins uiam'ainfecl such p. bold front din-ing the inverses that have overtaken his countrymen that it would not bo sm-grismg if he should refuse to recognise defeat vthile even the morost handful -of men can be found to resist the B.iti^b. advance. The time must, howjnei'j be close at band v/hen the, misguided Boirs, or rather the rein* nant of t/iem that remain in the field, will realise that the cor In- iance of the slrwg^'e can now on'y add to the p'-ice* they will uu>mately have to pay for the I '"* fo"v, That this truth has already forced itself npou some of their 01pnthisfcL's is shown by a leitcr written last month to tho Opa Times by Mr Isaac Bosnian, v, prominent Dutchman reading at JVgeivfonleiu. "la viaw of the state of affairs, it is the duty of the Afrikander Bond: and the Propressive Party," ho spys, "to petition fcbe Transvaal to /ay down their arms and surrender unconditionally, in order to avoid further slaughter, as also tho inerarsid burden of taxation which the colojiiy will have to" pay. By adopting snch a course, the Bond would in company with the Progressives, show its ioyalfcy. Seeing that the great Powers only sympathise, but for tho rest do nothing for the Republics, it is time that tho eyes of tne A.fl*lkandetsi should be opened." Mr Bos • nan. tolls his countrymen that " it h futile to offer any further iesislance to such a, mighty toner as Great Britain," and assure* them that he liaa every reason to believe tbafe "Ibis great Empire will not trample on the Afrjhftndcr.s in tho Tnnbvaal, and will allow them to reto.iu uhcir rights and liberties. 1 ' Probably a good many members of the \fiilwinder Bond share Mr Bosmjii'o opinion, .and there are indications that some of Ihoir leaders aro esti'iraely anxious to uuko peace with, the British anihorities ; but Mr Ivriigcr doubtless feels he has gone too for lo deserve the leniency winch would probably have been shown to him had he submiiidd afc an earlier stage of the campaign. Now, as the Daily Express pat it the other day, a villa in St. FWen.i, with plenty of coffee !Uid tobacco, seems to be the logitiniata r uige of his future ambition. Th tluse circurasfcanees, .it is i?ofc uuna.tnral I hat, havintr no taste .scenery and , solitude, ho ?hou 1 desire to delay, Ujg final settlement as loug as, possible.