Crossword-Solution: ZARPS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Jameson answered, when asked after his first night in the Pretoria jail if there was anything he would like to have, 'Nothing, thank you, but flea powder.' I sat on the verandah with Sir Sydney Shippard and Betty this evening and watched the 'Zarps'[4] take control of the town.

This was faithfully done by the unconscious negro, to the entire satisfaction of all save the Zarps in charge.

Among those who were most forward in fighting were the Johannesburg police, the much-despised "Zarps" of peaceful times; the Pretoria commando, and the younger men of other commandos.

Hiding near a neighbouring kopje was a small body of Zarps watching for a chance of sniping or capturing a seceding Boer.

The former, whose _sobriquet_ of "Zarps" war made more famous with the British than peace had rendered it infamous, numbered some 1,200 whites and 200 blacks under 13 officers and 64 non-commissioned officers.