Japie greyling biography of martin luther

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J. E. B Seely is remembered in South Africa as the commander that placed the 10-year-old Japie Greyling (1890-1954) against a wall in front of a firing squad, threatening to have him executed if he did not provide information about the Boer forces in the area.

The boy refused to cooperate, and was freed.

Japie greyling biography of martin luther king

Several memorials still exist in South Africa today, attesting to the remarkable story.

Below is his account of the event in his book FEAR, AND BE SLAIN, ADVENTURES BY LAND, SEA AND AIR

I. THE BLUFF THAT FAILED

IN April, in the year 1900, I was commanding a squadron of the Hampshire Yeomanry attached to General Rundle’s Eighth Division.

It so happened that Lord Kitchener—whose cooks I had stolen before we started on a wild gallop, which he accompanied, through Prieska to the Orange River-had arranged with me to mount a party of scouts who, he said, knew the whole country from De Aar junctio