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...time Smuts joined the fighting the Boers knew their goose was cooked but meant to burn it to a crisp before they quit. With famed Guerrillas Botha, de Wet, de la Rey, they raided in mounted commandos, depending on prisoners for rifles, ammunition, clothes, often literally fighting to eat. The British took to burning farms, interning the women and children in concentration camps (20,000 of them died there). When the Boers took prisoners they swapped rags for uniforms, then turned the soldiers-loose. With a commando of 360 Smuts set out to invade the Cape, still hoping the Boers...
...speaking of the strike in South Africa you say, in the editorial, "To Break a Strike", in this morning's issue of the CRIMSON, "The strike is unique in that for the first time airplanes have been used to quell the disturbance. Bombs have been dropped on commandos of strikers to excellent effect . . . This appears to be one of the best strike breaking methods yet devised, for by it, always providing it is used rightly, only the iniquitous are injured. The planes are available only to the government, so that they can not be used by the insurgents. Heretofore...
This South African strike, centering about Johannesburg, has almost assumed the proportions of civil war. Armed commandos of strikers are continually coming into conflict with government troops, and are trying to cut railroad communications. Similar commandos of citizens are being recruited to fight the strikers. The strike is unique in that for the first time airplanes have been used to quell the disturbance. Bombs have been dropped on commandos of strikers to excellent effect, and provisions and ammunition have been dropped to besieged police. This appears to be one of the best strike breaking methods yet devised...