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I myself paid a visit to President Steyn and General Wessel Wessels, after which I put matters straight in our hospital at Bezuidenhoutsdrift, which was under the charge of Dr. H.J. Poutsma. I Cut my Way Through Sixty Thousand Troops The English could not endure the thought that we had their guns in our possession.
As early as four o'clock in the afternoon Laura, suddenly moved by an unreasoning caprice, began to prepare an elaborate toilet. Not since the opera night had she given so much attention to her appearance. Wessels her grenadine of great occasions. As for herself, she decided upon a dinner gown of black, decollete, with sleeves of lace. Her hair she dressed higher than ever.
"I want to make him drunk. I want to make you drunk if you like. I want to make him drunk here." "Spoke very 'andsome. I'll do what I can." He went out towards the water that lapped at the foot of the street. I gathered from the pot-boy that he was a person of influence beyond Admirals. In a few minutes I heard the noise of an advancing crowd, and the voice of Mr. Wessels.
If they had surrendered Wessels and I would probably have gone in the same direction, and the commando would have followed, and so all of us would have been in a terrible predicament. But they had risked their lives to save us from certain destruction. Failing to ford the river at that drift, we proceeded down-stream with the hope of crossing it somewhere else.
In case of such an emergency, De Wet divided his forces into two parts. He placed one division 1050 strong with four guns under the control of Generals Cronje, Froneman, Wessels, and Piet De Wet, with instructions to occupy the positions east of the Modder River and directly opposite the Waterworks, so as to check Broadwood, should he come to the rescue of the garrison.
Behind them the voice continued: "They say Porteous will peg the market at twenty-six." "Well he ought to. Corn is worth that." "Never saw such a call for margins in my life. Some of the houses called eight cents." Wessels: "By the way, Aunt Wess'; look at that man there by the box office window, the one with his back towards us, the one with his hands in his overcoat pockets. Isn't that Mr.
We had the opportunity of accepting the invitation of Mr. C. Wessels to take breakfast at his house. It was there that General Piet de Wet came to me and asked if I still saw any chance of being able to continue the struggle? The question made me very angry, and I did not try to hide the fact. "Are you mad?"
It was thirty miles from Sterkfontein to my commando, but, notwithstanding this, I sent an order that 1,500 men, under Generals J.B. Wessels, C.C. Froneman and De Villiers, should come up with all haste and bring three guns with them.
Our whole stock of ammunition was on the rail at Wolvehoek. I had given orders to Mr. Sarel Wessels, who had charge of the ammunition, to hold himself in readiness to proceed with it by rail, through the Transvaal, to Greylingstad as soon as he received orders to do so.
Fifty burghers in the district of Standerton addressed the Government, pointing out the undesirability of allowing a 'certain Advocate Wessels to defend the Jameson rebels, and praying that the Government would put him over the border, 'which is the slightest punishment that can be inflicted upon him. The receipt of this petition was announced in the Government organ, the Press, on March 25.
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