Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — Oom Paul Is Up Against It. [ARTICLE]

Oom Paul Is Up Against It.

Uncle Paul Kruger is a very smooth old schemer and he evidently had his plans well studied out when he sprung the war on the British. His plan was to make quick work of all the British forces then in his neighborhood, and then be able to meet each new army as it came on. His 'plan has worked all right in one respect, and that is that every time his army has met the British so far, the Boers have had an enormous advantage in point of numbers; but in, a more important point than strength of numbers, his plan has failed entirely. His former success at Majuba Hill and the Jameson raid, has caused him to underestimate the fighting qualities of the British; and ineteadof one Boer being equal to ten Britishers, as was proudly boasted, it has proved so far that in a good square fight, one Britisher has been equal to two Boers; and the Boers are good fighters too. Oom Paul is getting most beautifully licked in one, two, three order, and if he realizes the fact and surrenders, as it is now reported he will do, it will be the best thing he can do.