SOUTH AFRICA.

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume IV, 1 April 1901, Page 567

SOUTH AFRICA.

The marvellous aptitude which Do Wet possesses of withdrawing from every tight corner, however impossible such a movement seems, at times when to all appearance ho cannot fail to be cornered, has been often the subject of remark. In many inntanccH he has to sacrifice guns, waggons, and commissariat, but apparently nothing loth, he does so, and disappears only to appear again fully equipped and equally aggressive in another locality, repudiating all peace negotiations. The marvel is how he manages to keep up the hearts of his men and obtain fresh recruits and supplies when needed, thus by his own personal courage, daring and obstinacy prolonging a war to indefinite limits which the best authorities on tHe subject anticipated would be completed in 'a few months.