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WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

SEL OTT a ce ee

Interesting Particulars of the Struggle Betweon

VICTOR OF COLESBERG.

SOME POINTS ABOUT GENERAL FRENCH AND HIS CAREER AS A SOLDIER,

(By Major Arthur Griffiths, in the Lon- don ‘Daily Mail.’)

It is a curious fact, on which some emphasis has been recently laid, that the most succesful ef our leaders in Seuth Africa so far have been princi- pally cavalry officers. Colonel Baden- Powell is actually colonel of the 5th Dragoon Guards. General French, Jate of the 19th Hussars, went oat with Buller with the express purpose of commanding the strong cavalry div- ision, which as yet, has no corporate existence, its various items and com- ponent parts having been split up and distributed over the whole theatre of

war:

Radeti- Powell has no doubt owed his magnificent defence ef Mafeking to his innate resolute spirit rather than to his cavalry training : but French, a cavalry officer ‘pur et simple,’ has excelled in | troop leading, and has shown it es- pecially in his management of the three arms combined. It was HIS EXCELLENT DISPOSITIONS and obvious mastery of the operation that led Sir George White to leave French the undisputed control of the Elandslaagte fight, which was unques- tionably a victory. Again, now, al- though the proportion of artillery and infantry under his orders in the Coks- berg affair was relatively small, he han- dled all three arms with equal adroit- ness and knowledge.

In his case, as in Baden-Powell’s, it is, of course, the intrinsic qualities of | the man that have brought him success not the chance that he learn his work in the cavalry. It is yet undoubtedly true that that arm-has produced many good men in these latter days. It has been noticed beture now by shrewd ob- | servers that the standard of intelligence | and efficiciency is very high among |cavalry officers. There is a marked improvement in the whole class; the days of the ‘haw-haw’ plunger are pass- ed, and one and all are conspicuous in their efforts to benefit by the higher in- Struction, to seek out eagerly any avenue of distinction, to shirk no duty, however irksome and arduous ; and the result is that they come CONSTANTLY TO THE FRONT.

General French is an excellent speci- men of the old school, whioh includes a number of first-class soldiers. It is only necessary to mention the names of Babington and Brabazon, of Brockle- | hurst, now unhappily shut up in Lady- smith; of Lord Dundorald, com-

manding Buller’s cavalry on the Tugela; of Lord Airlie, at the head of the 12th | Lancers on the Modder ; of Colonel | Breadwood, lately the dashing young leader of the Egyptian cavalry, now at | she head o: 2 fine corps of irregular cavalry at the Cape.

French has always been esteemed by those who pretend to have an insight into character, as one of the best ofall, His soldierly aptitudes and his sound qualifications for the military service | were noted almost from the first. | Fora long time he was no more than a regimental adjutant, first with his | own people, the 1gth Hussars, and next | with a yeomanry Corps. He was al- | ways held in high esteem by ail he ser- ved under. Ij was greatly to his ad- vantage that his lot was cast with one of the best cavalry regiments in the | service. This was the rgth Hussars, | leng under the command of Colonel Barrow,

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his unstiating approval, especially when employed in outposts cuties and reconnaissances,

French was its major and second in command, and he went with it on that momentous expedition of Herbert Stewart’s, which was thrown across the Bayuda Desert as a last forlorn hope to rescue Gordon in Khartoum. At the fierce conflict of Abu Klea, when Stew- art was struck down with Burnaby and so many more gallant souls, French, with his regiment, was engaged, and, again, they were at Methemmeh when Redvers Buller’s opportune arrival was

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tion of the force.

A strong bond of union appears to have grown up between Buller and French, dating probably from those earlier days, Tt was increased by their clesg¢ association at thé autumn moneeuvres of 1898, when French commanded the cavalry brigade of the Southeyn (Buller’s) Army Corps. It was THOUGHT BY SOME EXPERTS that the cavalry on that eccasion did not greatly distinguish themselves, that it was too much wedded to old tradi tions of working in large bodies over long distances and at great speed, while the less showy, but more useless duties of reconnaissance were largely over-looked.

For this the system of training that had long prevailed was principally to blame. It is certain that French made the most of his command, in so far as his antagonist, General Talbot, was concerned, when he continuaily checked and _ out-menceuvred. A smart bit of fight was seen on the day of the fight at Yarmbury Castle, when French, with a body of his cavalry, surprised one or more batteries of Horse Artillery, dismonnted and made the whole force prisoners.

When the staff of the South African Army Corps was being discusted it was finally decided to give the cavalry

command to French. Many other names were brought forward and

strongly supported; but the casting vote for French was given by Bu*er himself, who earnestly pleaded to have his own man.

The good opinion he had first formed had been confirmed at Alder- shot, where French last year command- ed the cavalry. Since then Buller has been loudin his praises of an officer whose services he so urgently needed that French, as we know, made his eés- cape from Ladysmith by the skin of his teeth on the very eve of its invest- ment. The story of his going south by the train, concealed UNDER A SEAT OF THE RAIL-

WAY CARRIAGE and running the gauntlet of a droop- ing fire, has already been heard.

Now, Buller is known to place great reliance upon Frence, whom he characterizes as one of the best gener- als he has got. It looks as ifhe had abundant reason for hls truthfulness.

In appearance French is hardly an ideal cavalry officer. There is little of the ‘beau sabreur’ about him. He is short and _ thick, and ofa rather un- gainly figure. Although he can stick ona horse as . well as anyone, rides with a strong seat, and is indefatigable in the saddle, he is not at all a pretty horseman. His mindis more set on essentials—on effective leadership with all it means—rather then on what soldiers call ‘spit and polish,’ the-ex- ternal appearance and not the true in— wardness of things.

His mental calibre is undoubtedly high ; he is sound in judgement, clear- headed, patient, taking everything quietly, the rough with the smooth ; but he is always on the spot, willing to wait and still more ready to act, when

the opportunity comes, with tre- mendous effect. A DOCTOR ON THE BAYTLE-

FIELD.

A lot of the North Lancashire men were frightfully wounded. I turned over a sergeant, black in the face, dead. One man had been brought to me who had been struck by a shell fragment— face mutilated, throat’ cut, and chest

lacerated. O God! the sight was sick- | Very few | of our men being wounded, I went out |

ening ; blood everywhere.

near sunset to aid the Highlanders. They had been lying all day under that frightful sun, and their wounded were still there. No stretcher-bearers could advance, as they were all shotat. They shouted to me to crawl on the ground,

Great Britain and the Boers.

as, though most of the firing was over, there were still three or four Boers,

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who were under cover, and who kept picking off our men. Some men utterly collapsed, and all I could ¢o was to put a pad to their wounds and my whiskey flask to their lips. I then crawled back to my horse and made my way to some ambulances two miles distant, in order to get their aid. I was under fire all the time, bullets dancing round me. I felt a kind of solemn disregard, as I had been ex- posed to greater dangers before.— Letter from a surgeon at Modder River.

FROM INDIA TO AFRICA.

After several years service in India, Captain Hensley was ordered with his regiment to South Atrica, where his regiment has been for nearly two years, and the famous Royal Dublin Fusiliers were, of course, at once sent to the front. At the battle of Glencoe, Cap- tain Hensley and his regiment were in the thickest of the fighting. The Hali- fax hero was in the never to be forgot- ten retreat with Yule from Dundee to Ladysmith. From that camp he was ordered to Estcourt, and will be re- membered as being in command of the armored train which did such ex-— ecution among the Boers early in the campaign. Captain Hensley’s private letter to his parents dated Estcourt, November the 21st, descriptive of the battle of Glencoe, and which was pub- lished in. The Mail of January 13th ard the Herald of the 15th, was one of the most thrilling and realistic pieces of descriptive writing which had appear- ed in print for many a day. No ac- count of the war from the pen of the most experienced correspondent has attracted so much attention as_ his graphic story. Some of the most strik- ing passages are herewith reproduced:

—Sir Michael Hicks-Beach will find it less difficult to finance a big war than a small one, since he will be forced to borruw on a large scale and increase the funded debt, says a_ financial ex- pert. ‘he military operations in South Africa will require not ten, but fifty millions sterling, It is clearly im- practicable for the Chancellor of the Excherquer to provide for expenses by chaiging them against revenues for two or three years and carry a large floating debt. He is not likely to increase the difficulties of the ministry by raising the rate of taxation, and thereby rendering the war unpopular when he has the easy resource of bor- rowing the money which he requires and leaving another generation to carry the financial burden of a war for the salvation of the Empire. If the nation be as sound as _its wonderful achievements in coloniza- tion and maritime and industrial ex- pansion during the current century would lead one to believe, it will be all the better for the trial through which we are now going. Itis hu- miliating, no doubt, for Englishmen to have their weaknesses and shortcom- ings exposed by an enemy whose military resources were deemed _ con- temptible and whom they expected to overwhelm in a holiday march upon Pretoria. But the fact that they do not nurse their grievances against those who blindly led them into the Boer trap, but on the contrary, assume their full share of responsibility for the spirit of over-confidence and the sense of superiority of which they have become the victims, shows that the vigor of the English people is unimpaired. The ability to confess errors and to resolve to correct them is the true test of man- liness,

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