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We can only guarantee his life and that of his men as long as they are under us, and until the moment when they are handed over to the Commandant. General Cronjé answered thereupon, 'So be it, brother. Then Adendorff asked if he had to interpret this to Jameson, whereupon Malan said, 'Yes, and thereupon said in English to Jameson, 'This is Commandant Malan.
The kaffir question, however, was left unsettled, although General Blood promised to warn the kaffir tribes round Lydenburg not to interfere in the War and not to leave the immediate vicinity of their kraals. The interview lasted about an hour, and besides us two, Colonel Curran and my secretary, Lieutenant Malan, were present.
The Admiral won't be exactly pleased." Captain Malan spoke very soothingly. Moorshed looked out through the stern door at Two Six Seven. Pyecroft and I, at attention, studied the paintwork opposite. Captain Panke had dropped into his desk chair, and scribbled nervously at a blotting-pad. Just before the tension became unendurable, he looked at his junior for a lead.
Cronjé then replied, 'Then I must believe you upon your word that you have no flag? Jameson then said, 'I declare under oath that I possess no flag. This conversation was interpreted word for word by Adendorff. Shortly afterwards Commandant Malan also arrived there. He asked, 'What is up here?
Malan, son-in-law of General Joubert, were bringing over a message from the Government, and that he hoped the Committee would meet them in a reasonable spirit. A full meeting of the Committee was at once called to receive the two delegates. The meeting took place at 9 p.m. and lasted until 12 p.m. on Tuesday night. Mr.
With him came Reuter's Agent, Mr. Mackay, and the odious Malan. I received them sitting on my bed in the dormitory, and when they had lighted cigars, of which I always kept a stock, we had a regular durbar. I began: 'Well, Mr. Grobelaar, you see how your Government treats representatives of the Press. Grobelaar. 'I hope you have nothing to complain of Self.
The tribune is occupied only when a Minister makes a Ministerial declaration, or a Convener of a Committee gives in his Report. An open space divides the tribune from the seats of the members. These last run all round the hall, in concentric rows of benches, also covered with crimson. "There, on the right," said M. Malan, "sit the priest party.
What was to become of them if the burghers, by refusing to come to terms with the enemy, should no longer be able to act as their mutual protectors? Let them make no more widows and orphans, but let them open their eyes and recognize that the hand of God was against them. The next business was the reading of two letters one from General Malan and the other from General Kritzinger.
There they sat, worshipping their fathers' God, amid their fathers' mountains, victorious over twelve centuries of proscription and persecution, and holding their sanctuaries and their hills in defiance of Europe. In the evening Professor Malan preached in the schoolhouse of Margarita, a small village on the ascent from La Tour to Castelluzzo.
In spite of this guarantee of the lives of all, Commandant Malan subsequently repudiated the guarantee in so far as to say that he would not answer for the lives of the leaders, but this was not until our arms had been given up and the force at the mercy of the Boers.
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