THE BOER WAR.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 15 June 1881, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

♦ Some s ; gnificant articles on the sur* render to the Boerabave appeared in the German pivss lately. One paper remarks that in the late battles in Natal the English have,' for the first time since tho doubtful victories of the Crimean war, fought — nob against Hindoes negroes or Afghans, but against Europeans — and hay? been beaten. This is a new proof of the inefficiency of the English military system. England will soon have to decide weather she shall be merely a commercil State without any pretension to military power ; or whether by altering the military system, she shall in many points impair the foundations of hrr commerical greatness. She cannot much longer remain both Kome and Carthage ab the same time.' Another Greman paper draws

attention to tbe servicefperformed by the ?Boers both to Holland and to Germany by putting an end to tbe long antagonism between the two nations. ' After tbe battles at Wakkerstroom, at tbe Tngogo River, and the Majuba Mountain (the" writer says), many a German heart recollected how numerous are the* feelings and interests J which connect Germany with the opponents of Spanish and French "ambitionVandJj the conquered neighbors of England, and the hearty sympathy expressed for tbe Boers in Germany was warmly responded to on the Scheldt Perbaps the English""and"|Tthe Boers" at the Cape have^unconsciously sown the seeds of a friendshipbetween the*two kindred nations of]| HollandfandiGer* many'which may at some future time prove an event ofHiistoricaljimportance.'