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| LETTER FROM HURDIS McLEAN

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~ = fe On we ee = TONE UP 5 *. “ | -_* Pa [ The Battle of Paardeberg - Dloem 5 B & ; s fey | fontein Described. C fe) \ “. ry v . vou oa fe ia 5 Yo fig ihe tollowing is from ailetter written ‘4 meat ' @ fucling weak and languid, or if 3} by Hurdis McLean to a friend in ty ~€ , a i hay ttet vl It Bl fon fe) # | _hariottetown., l is dated 1OeCMIOoNn . On ‘ oy re V iro! I il i} fy | te », M Ch 2gun. fy > . : ; ' ; tg (a For the last month we have had [t gives new] ength @] job a8 fe # | little chance to get or send.mail; but <7) %) | : . . ; e now thn ‘ € Straignt 1 oiuit } : fy . ry . Lp | j | fe) ‘ ng - L aig MENG OUL a U Y @) | and we are likely tq remain here a few 7] 4 : : by | ile this @ We are havinga rest now after ti } } . a month’s hard work. @ spre,» perl. and the @} Since the 18th February we have | te iO . . ; hy price W h plac t within @ | been doing something. , On that day Ov | : | ts ‘ it itl ; . ; : ‘ . 4 : ' @ | we first came In contact with Cronyje at ty s i Ce) ; 1} ' ] & the reach of a to) | Paardeberg drift where he held a stron fe) | «3 ' f +} r & fy position alo: ig both sides Of the river- > Py) Z ts. @| bed which is narrow and has high > @ | banks % ‘ a) ALIA ’ | , } % y ( | Wewere the rear guard of the column } 4 ; : . "bo GEO k HUGHES | onthe march that night and did not ti ; = ’ . fe | get in until near six o’clock Sunday ; ; $ @' mornimg, having marched twenty-two 7]

The part of the column which arrive ‘d WS HETIVTEVS-SLTES F

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aged the eoemy about daylig

In suspense very were going te hardly

' first eng and we were not kept whether we not for we

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' | ° . ° | an army biscuit when we received the 4 House Cleaning : order to fall in and were marched off ® o @|at once. We were sent across the : LADIES | river to attack the Boer front. We = 2 | had to wade over through a very swift e Let is (i e | current with the water up to our breasts. > “ > | We got over all right, and advanced e ® in extended order. The first three : ; companies tiat crossed were sent at - our Bakin @ | once into the firing line with part of y the Highland Brigade. The remaind- er of us were in support lying down We can supply you with Ki, at from three hundred to five hundred best of bread aot Cakes, Cookies, yards further back. This was one of the Buns, Biscuits and Rolls, Pies worst places in the field as the oo and CAKE. We bake every sloped up from the river = we oe day and guarantee everything were firing rather high. The a to be good and fresh. would strike all around you, and you had not the satisfactin of firing a . 7 . . shot back, whereas in the firing line OUR DUCHESSE BREAD you do not mind it under the cicha is just the thing for fain ilyuse. aiiaie® g Try e loaf, enly 4c each. . A great many of our casualties oc- : TeLersone 98, ¢ cured in the supports through the day. s @| Roland Taylor and Fred Waye were ° : meee struck while there. We lay there ° D. Stewart @ | until late in the afternoon when three : seme companies of Cornwails came up to S one Ecuirs® Bakery 4 make an assault on the position and : @|then we reinforced the firing lines. ; BAKES BEST BREAD. ® | Just about dark the Cornwalls got the . 9 | order to charge which they did. The untried: Oe and Highlanders went with fut '

them. The Boers had n ost ail retreat- ed to the other side of the river from : which they poured in a murderous fire through the buses. Our men went down by the dozen.

It was terrible, but we stood it till the order came to cease fire as it was then « quite dark.

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CARD

DR. H- L. DICKEY

(Late "Clinical Assistan at Royal ' he worst part of it was to look over London Ophthalmic Hospttal,

Moorfields, and Central London the field next morning. The open

Throat and Ear Hosp//al) space across where the charge had

been made was strewn thick with the dead. the Colonel of the Cornwails among them where he had failen at the head of bis men with a rifle and fixed bavonet in his hand. Our casualties were over eighty, of which twenty- eight were killed. Some of our other regiments also lest pretty heavily. We could not teil what the Boer loss was

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THE DAILY EXAMINER CHARLOTTETOWN, MAY jy,

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ee as they buried a lot of their dead threw the rest into the which we were fising

river out of them for a week.

tired about three

Five of us undertook to elude

the sentries and take a ouse in the city :—and writing you now. There is a let of pout our coming

} open.

| he enemy ri ei es further up the river to where they |

iad their very strongly

. : ‘ entrenched As this was a

laager in a

| talk about cam] position,

home but l

Smart Boy Wanrep av Tae ExaMIner office

whicn had been dug about dark. It was about 400 from trenche

és,and we were to advance

the Boer | as far |

yards aa t

From Monrrean due bere from Montreal about May 8th, and sails for Si. foundland, via North

Peake Bros. & Co.

with our fire while they dug the

| At 2 o'clock in the morning we started

with bayonets fixed, the rear rank with heir rifles slu ng and carrying picks and

! shovels, anda company of RE. be

hind us with

trencn. Joho’ ey New- Sydney. agente.

History Socrery. meeting for the

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: Season of ithe Narnra! entrenching tools also. | gictory and Ant quarian Society will be

everything was done without a bit of | reid in the Y. M. C. A, parlor u«xt Mon- e. The Brigadier himself passed | day evening, when Rev, Dr. Morrison

alot yng the line and gave the word to will lecture upon the Yodinns of America.

advance. This was carried out, keep-| , ie

Sth scnick Gack Ga eee 3 | Supreme Courr—The Easter term oj it ; ’ iG ther in the tthe Supreme Court met today. Mr. Gil-

pitchy darkness The Gordons and } pert Gaudet was admitted an attorney ;

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Shrops were away off on our flank and were to keep firing volleys at long

range so as to draw the Boer fire while we advanced. But they did not start soon enough and we were about} Jart night to see the pictures tested under fifty yards from their trenches before| the curreat, and these speak io terms of they opened onus. ‘The right half of | the highest praise of the excellence of the our company was directly in iront of! Pictures. A moving picture about 10

et in diameter will be put on me- eB g oo Pp ‘ the Boers and we e gm it solid. About; | member the dates tomorrow and Thursday a dozen men went down around me. evrsione

Most of ot fellows were struck in the oe

while pa aa fell back a few yards. | pire of the 28th Apri! says: Too many

‘light hogs continue to be sent bere, and We kept up a fire while the trench | | the only re-ult will be a decline in prices. was being dug and as soon as _it was! For prime hoge(ecaling from 160 to 200 finished occupied it, Our fire was | Ibe) the top prices is 6le; light hogs are kept up till eight o’clock next morning, | bringing 53c per |b.

aud an order was made for the examina

his admission as an attorney.

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Tue Bioscope—A few were privileged

Out gettiag any closer than artillery | range, but we captured a gun from| them and run them into the hands of | W: General French’s cavalry brigade which | lircm bis son, Mr. James 8. Walker, who made short work of them. Since then | ‘is fighting with the Caoadiansin South we have madea record march of sixty | Africe 2,an album of Bloemfontein,views,and miles in four days and have occ ipied | ® copy of The Friend, the paper edited by the Orange Free State capital. the war correspondents,

‘camellia. Souta AFRICAN Souventr:?.—Mr. David alker, of Charlottetown, has received

Bloemfontein isa very nice town} Very interesting publication. It containe, and rather pretty. Tho banees are | besides mveb ed.torial and other natter, a

lee Rat eae ars fs. Th | oumber of proclamations by Lord Ruberte. mostly brick with tile Tools. | It also has a good adverticing patronage.

public buildings, whici are of brick} and stone, are very fine, among being the © Presidency, buildings and post office. part of the people residing in the city | now are British sy mpathizers and were]; idly permitted THe Examiser to have a glad to see the Union Jack. They piarce at them. treat us very kindly. i It has been raining all day and we) were soaked to the skin with our

Bet ween’ the covers of thealtum are viens them !of several churches, the Parliament Parliament } House, tue Presidency, the Town Hal), the

interest. Both album and newspaper are bighly prized by Mr. Walker,who nas very

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Parcels sent to any part of the city. Telephene or maii crders will be attended to as faith- fully as though you were present in person.

Corner Kent and Prince Streets.

do not

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when the enemy sent ina white flag. | Hogs, choice, per cwt-:....$6 00 to 625 That was the last engagement of much | Hogs, light, per ewr......... 5 (Ote 5 50 impottance. One day we chased aj Hoge, heavy fat, perewi.. 500 to 5 50 force of Boers over twenty miles with- | Sowe. srresereesees sseeeree 300 to 234

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very bad position to attack, and Lord | know if there isanything in it. The| Roberts was averse to any needless los OYs are all wel ll. Major Weeks is of life, we advanced against it by means | doing well for the boys since he has | of trenches. Each regiment by turn} been on the staff I think we are | ok 438 hours du ty, going in in the eh enough now for anything. Our vening and digging a trench and oc- | company has slept in the open ever cupying it the next day firing on the | since the 21st of January, and we have | lager. had some awful nights with the rain On Monday, the 26th, the Canadians’ | as this is the wet season. We are 2 ‘turn came and our company and H. | ragged-looking crew. Remember ne] company were taken for the advance | to all the boys. party. We entered the last trench LS = +a

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