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'I think you have certainly been abused unjustly. 'At the best I expected to be held in prison as a kind of hostage. See how I have been mistaken. I pointed at the sentry who stood in the doorway, for even members of the Government could not visit us alone. Grobelaar flushed. 'Oh, well, we will hope that the captivity will not impair your spirits. Besides, it will not last long.
'Look at the sentries with loaded rifles on every side. I might be a wild beast instead of a special correspondent. Grobelaar. 'Ah, but putting aside the sentries with loaded rifles, you do not, I trust, Mr. Churchill, make any complaint. Self. 'My chief objection to this place is that I am in it. Grobelaar. 'That of course is your misfortune, and Mr. Chamberlain's fault. Self. 'Not at all.
There had been a stratagem by which one of the Boer leaders a Grobelaar, I think got some of his men into the enemy's camp by hiding them in a captured forage wagon. 'Like the Trojan horse, I said involuntarily. 'Yes, said my companion, 'the same old device, and to my amazement he quoted some lines of Virgil. 'Do you understand Latin? he asked.
'Surely less extensive armaments would have been sufficient to guard against another similar inroad. Grobelaar. 'But we knew your Government was behind the Raiders. Jameson was in front, but Rhodes and your Colonial Office were at his elbow. Self. 'As a matter of fact no two people were more disconcerted by the Raid than Chamberlain and Rhodes.
The state of his foot didn't enter into the question at all, but official "etiquette" was in danger of being outraged. The commanding officer was a very good chap, though, and Henry seems to have escaped somehow in the tumult, unpursued. He had to walk over here. A wounded man from Warm Baths came in to-day, and said they had had two days' fighting there; camp heavily shelled by Grobelaar.
We are a peace-loving people, but we had no choice but to fight or be what was it your burghers told me in the camps? "driven into the sea." The responsibility of the war is upon you and your President. Grobelaar. 'Don't you believe that. We did not want to fight. We only wanted to be left alone. Self. 'You never wanted war? de Souza. 'Ah, my God, no!
I have always said "sooner." Therefore, I rejoiced when you sent your ultimatum and roused the whole nation. Malan. 'You don't rejoice quite so much now. Self. 'My opinion is unaltered, except that the necessity for settling the matter has become more apparent. As for the result, that, as I think Mr. Grobelaar knows, is only a question of time and money expressed in terms of blood and tears.
On the application of the Sheba G. M. Co. for permission to erect an aërial tram from the mine to the mill, 'Mr. Grobelaar asked whether an aërial tram was a balloon or whether it could fly through the air. 'The only objection that the Chairman had to urge against granting the tram was that the Company had an English name, and that with so many Dutch ones available. 'Mr. 'June 18.
'Then you maintain, de Souza, that the distrust caused in this country by the fact that Rhodes was not punished though how you can punish a man who breaks no law I cannot tell was the sole cause of your Government making these gigantic military preparations, because it is certain that these preparations were the actual cause of war. Grobelaar. 'Why should they be a cause of war?
Grobelaar. 'No: our opinion is quite unchanged. We prepared for the war. We have always thought we could beat you. We do not doubt our calculations now. We have done better even than we expected. The President is extremely pleased. Self. 'There is no good arguing on that point. We shall have to fight it out.
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