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WAR IN SOUTH

THE DAILY EXAMINER CHARLOTPETOWN, APRIL 3, 1900.

AFRICA.

Interesting Particulars of the Struggle Between Great Britain and the

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FATHER

One of the mo of the fight at Paa when the Canadia given by Kev. I Roman Catholic c! tingent. He was! ed look for the « and performed the grave of the eighte His letter was sent

james M. O'Leary, follows :

My Dear Brother.

once happy honte since the fatal 18th but the deep sorrow

away will undoubte the consoling assu

, into the hearts of the

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REPORT.

t graphic accounts deberg last month, is lost so heavily, is ither O'Leary, the aplain with the con- ght with the firing line during the fight and at night help- wounded last rites at the n heroes who dicd. to his brother, Mr. of Ottawa, and is as

~Well, at last we |

ay } ma id througn it, an

ur baptisn of fire was a costly

ne, willingly would we go through it again.

Canada may well be proud of her

no boys. Itis true that many a

; now in mourning day of February, that has entered

loved ones far ily be tempered by ance that all have

{search for the dead and wounded. In the total darkness, for the least light drew the enemy’s fire, we groped over the ground, everywhere our hands steeped in blood, blood, blood. From all directions faint moans coupled with pitifal pleadings for “water, water,” reached our ears. Accidentally one would stumble over a friend. Then what pathetic scenes would take place

"| many an upturned face, and many ol

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| night myself

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' ground seeking rest

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—-a message for home—“Tell mother etc., etc.,” or perhaps Don’t leave me, it won’t be long.”

GATHERING THE

The moon soon rose over the weird and shed

UP DEAD.

neaceful rays on : them calm and placid in death That f and a few devoted fel-

lows remained until late on the fatal

field exploring every nook and corner }

for the wounded, oftener meeting with the mangled dead until at last our strength gave out, and reaching our line we threw ourselves on the hard and forgetfulness in sleep.

So did most of the survivors. Hard- ly a word was exchanged, for all were exhausted, what with a forced march of twenry miles the

the trying ordeal of that long, long day. Monday morning we gathered our

ether and buried them side

by side—eighteen in all—in one broad

| grave, whilst I performed the sad _ but

done their duty—a«all, every one. So say the brave Gordons, the tamous Black Watch, the Argylls, the Seaforths, the sturdy Cornwal's,—so say they all. And oh, that wild, mad _ charge | against an invisible enemy. Never | shall I forget it, nor shall I attempt to describe it at leas: for the present. | Mell let loose would give but a faint dea of it. On, on we rushed through a hail of bullets, the air alive again

with deadly missiles.

cheer, or rather tha

over the horrors.

On we rushed | ing through bramb prosirate comrades, eager im of blood-shed and which had d o1 enemy’s trenches

f battle, ch, tha wild

adly, wildly, tear es, stumbling over in the deliri- destruction us all to reach the And above the din

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savage yell. PRE

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Like

tigers our brave bovs led over

the open, but it was mot to be; dark-

ness closed on us ere the position was carried and the day won.

Darkness settled down on that well

nt lly casting a veil

Then began the ing.

cons ling duty of « ymmitting them to the care when we would be far away from this fateful

of Gud’s angels

land. May they rest in peace, noble, brave boys.

I must bring this letter to a close. I feel sick at heart when I recall to mind the scenes of blood I witnessed and the stirring events I have gone FRENCH’S RIDE TO KIM-

BERLEY. Never have the mailed accounts

from the scene of war been so interest- Within the last few days some

preceding night and ;

Boers.

‘fifty columns of these have appeared in the London papers and for the first time Great Britain has learned the dramatic details that marked the ride of General Freneh into Kimberley, the advance of Lord Roberts into the Orange Free State, the corralling of General Cronje, the advance to relieve Ladysmith and the terrors of the sieges

of Kimberley and Mateking. From

this interesting accumulation, the most ivivid is, perhaps the detailed ac- count cf General French’s ride to

Kimberley. In the rapid course of epoch making events which preceded and followed the relief of Kimberley his exploit escaped the attentien would otherwise haye received. ' yadent of the London Tir described the ride of General French into Kimberley as follows :

| “From Modder river, from Rensburg }and from DeAar the cava'ry, mounted ry and horse artillery came_ in | long lines concentrating at Gras Pan | and Honeynest Klocf. On Monday |the march began. Ramdam, eight miles to the southeast, was soon pas:- ed and asharp skirmish secured Dekels Drift on the Riet. After a day the column moved on. At Klip Drift the cavalry division halted at | night. The breathless haste of a dash through the enemy’s country, carried

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paralell, had left its mark on the horses | and the transport was hopelessly in the | rear.

“On the rsth, at ten o'clock, the

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1 cured a horse of the mange with MINARD'S LINIWENT. CHRISTUPHER SAUNDERS. Dalhousie.

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I cured a horse badly torn by a pitch

rk, with MINARD’S LINIMENT. EDWARD LINLIFF,

St. Peter’s, C. D.

I cured a horse of # bad swelling with MINARD’S LINIMENT. THOMAS W. PAYNE. | Bathurst, N. B.

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KING’S POST.

N THEENEMY’S GUNS FROM AN AI

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halt of a} |dous charge and almost powerless to)

out with a rapidity probab'y without a |

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critical advance was made, and the j Here the pace began to tell, and horse |

shelling and capture of two laagers a | after horse that had struggled on so far

few miles out of Klip Drift on the Northern side of the river, cleared the | way for the junction of the force en- camped on the Modder, some five | miles east of the Border fence. This | body was composed of Kitchener's and | Roberts’ Horse and two more regi- | ments of mounted infantry. Before they entered the great plain Alexanders- | fontein the contingent from | Modder, the Scots Greys, House- hold Cavalry and two Lancer regiments also. joined the force,, which now numbered some 10,000 men, seven | batteries of Horse Artillery and three | field batteries. Their entry into the plain was the signal for the great event of the day. The plain is perhaps three {miles in width and five in length, converging slightly to the north and fringed with kopjes.

“The kopjes on either side were held by the Boers who poured bullets and sheils into the advancing mass, al- most hidden by the curtain of dust that rose from under the houfs of the

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| horses. These were quickly cleared of cheir occupants by the impe‘vous rush of the mounted infantry. Lieut.

Sweet Escott, cf the 16th Lancers, was the first officer to fall, shot dead at 50 yards by a Boer, who received a lance through his throat almost before he 'could produce the invariable cry for mercy. Kopje after kopje was cleared 'and the Boers were driven from them right and lett, as the column crashed forward like some great ploughshare, thrusting aside the enemy on either side, helpless to withstand this tremen-

‘harm it. A barbed rinder fence | stretching across the plain checked the ‘advance for the moment, and the halt enabled the Boers to withdraw their ‘guns. It was no time for a fiank movement to capture them.

At Bevillier’s Farm, at the northern ‘end of the plain, the column halted, | and reformed in columa after watering the horses. They had come ro miles and broken the ring round the besieg- ed town. The pace at which the ad- vance had been made had both minim- ized the casualties and prevented Cronje from appearing with 10,000 men to line the kopjes on the plain. | The latter realized that he was defeat- |ed and acted with his usual sagacity. By tae evening of this same day not a man was left on the hills on the ridges that had been the camping ground so long.

, Meanwhi'e the cavalry pushed on from Bevillier’s farm. The country resembled some great English park, studded with single trees and undulat- ing under the long sunburnt grass, through which the guns ploughed long tracks in the crumbling red _ soil.

Our

women

fell dead from some wound unnoticed in the fight

There was no time te pause, and at a point some three miles further, the first sight of Kimberley burst upon the column through the fringe of trees. The Boers on the north of the town were firing their shots from their great gun, but they soon stopped, and Gene- ral French entered the town, which within a moment had put out its flags and decorations. The panic that had been caused by the continuous burst- ing of the huge shells over every part of the besieged town vanished, and from the 1200 foot level of the diamond mines thousands of women and child- ren emerged into the light of day.”

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