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Interesting Particulars of the Struggle Between Great Britain and the Boers.

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1 your fall to raise a host ?

The . t grea’ day will come and thou Wilt stand before thy Judge to plead

This be thy cause: “My God, I died lo take a cruel, cursing heel Fro ff my ‘ellowman for my

ake, and right’s and ine, ‘ Then One who saw what men ha mussed,

Thy valorous deed, shall on thy breast, M:dst harmony of sounds sublime,

Ihy honor cadge eternally. Louis Blake Doff. TOMMY IN HOSPITAL.

The following was written by a milit- ary nurse and published in the London

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here is no lack of subjects. arried in to her in tens, in twenties, nd in hundreds, Every regiment is mnly too well represented. Devons, inniskillings, Queens, Connaught Ran- ers, etc., lie side by side, men from NMublin, London, Warwickshire, Nerth- umberland, and Cornwall, almost from every town and village throughout the Islands

Essentially loyal and logical is our ' British fighting material. | the Queen, an unshakable, childlike faith in British superiority, the courage that cannot picture fear, produces these “soldier battles” that call forth the astonished admiration of Africa and Europe. At the same time the sturdy logic in your British soldier de- mands results: a definite aim to be ‘ought for and attained, no matter the cost; but the enemy still at large, even

having a say in the armistice, does not meet his ideas, and he turns dissatis- fied and ironical.

Perhaps afew remarks noted down it random may best convey an impres- tion of army philosophy. There is no self-deception or vain imagining about } Tommy Atkins; ever cheerful, he yet takes a very unvarnished view of his profession of arms and expresses him- self thus: “What became of Jones?” “Died of dysentry.” “And Hobson?” “Bullet kn ocked him clean out Colenso day, two feet off me.” “A couple cf pals o’ mine fell same time” (very cheerfully,) “There’!! be another kill- ing (meaning encounter) before long I

‘Any wounded in the tent?’ “Yes,

put: Of. It gives a good idea of | warrant.’ Pommy in hospital :-— Maritzurg, Christmas Week.

\ military nurse, apart from the di-

rect professional interest in the cases brought to he acquire consi

“manner of n British army. And in this

lerable insight into the | saw a Boer all day.” ian” that makes up the | behind their rocks?

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t sister, all wounds” (in chorus) ‘‘and we would like to know what satisfaction we have out of them.” “Mere man-

care, is in a position to | slaughter, that Colenso affair.” “Never

“Call ’em brave Why, they only had to shut their eyes, let go the trigger,

campaign unfortunately , and they couldn’t help hitting — os

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They are { say we are pretty fools to stand up and

be shot down just for the fun of it; to see how we like it (ironically) I sup- pose.” “There was General Buller in the thick of it close up to General Clery, making a target of himself and us; wonder he was not killed—shells all round, close up.”

Another struckin. ‘I got satsfac-- tion out of this,” patting a bullet- riddled shoulder and chest. “Good business Willow Grange—had _ the Boers there, sent them helter-skelter ”

“Take us up tothe Boers, right in among ‘em, and you'll find your one British soldier a match for twenty of ’em; why ain’t he a match for any one all the world over? let alonea Boer” (scornfully).

The one prevailing idea of the sol- dier in the hospital isto get patched up and returned to the field. He | makes an excellent patient, uncom- ; plaining and trustful, doing what he is | told like an obedient child. The penal- ties to warfare he easily and good-natur- | edly accepts as part of the day’s work. | Just a bit of chaffand that is all.

“When them doctors get to hitching off arms and legs there’s no holding ‘em, they're just a bit too handy like over these ’er jobs.” “They want to be even with the Boers.” “Can't understand | our generals, can’t make ’em out no- | how.” “Got us back when we were close on ’em. Wouldn’t have no night | attack (Colenso), but we'll have our turn soon, we won't be kept back from Pretoria, not we.”

And they sit up to eat their Christmas pd ling, glowing with en- thusiasm for their Queen who did not forget her soldiers, fighting to give her back a continent. A. G

COLONIAL OFFICERS. Lord Lansdowne, in his recent speech

in the House ot Lords, said, in respect toobtaining officers for the forces: “For

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the new linebattalions we intend to raise, and for the new batteries of ar- tillery, we shall want a large number of officers; and I frankly confess to the House that the difficulty of taking officers in a proper number and quality seems to me to be one of the most se-- rious, if not the most serious, with which we have to contend.

“We expect to draw on the reserve of officers, of whom there are, I think. about 1,700, and for the resc we must depend upon promotions in the higher

ranks, accompanied, of course, by the !

admission of a very large number of officers of subaltern rank as well.

“With this object we intend to offer commissions to the militia and volun- teers, to the universities,gand a small number of public schools. We also intend to offer commissions to the col- onies—(cheers)—from whom we have already received many excellent offi- cers. (Cheers.)”

THE CANADIAN DEAD

Arthur Weir, Montreal

Dead by the Modder they lie,

Under a southern sky.

Happy it is to die For country and Queen.

The south their bones shall hold,

But here in the north, behold,

The shrine of those strong and bold Shall rise ere the grass is green.

Dead by the Modder ! our sons Their dead hands clasping their guns, Dead! while the enemy runs, Dead, but our flag sweeps along. Now, well we know that we are One people beneath every star, One blood, one steel ; and afar ‘he nations know, now we are strong.

WHERE BRITAIN’S STRENGTH LIES.

The British army in South Africa has simply suffered in a demonstration of pivotal importance in all modern war. Very probably, in spite of the bitter English critic sm of the British Generals, they have done about as well as the Generals of any other army of a great State in this new ordeal of war.

It has been a bitter lesson, but it was inevitable. Meantime, has the British Empire suffered irom any- thing except a blow tothe sensitive pride of the English people ? No State and no alliance of State dares to as-- sail it because of the events in South Africa. The British Empire is held together in its invincible intergity by the British navy; and while the war in South Africa has taught for the - first

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time the lesson that even vast super-- iority in numbers cannot countervail the advantage enjoyed by even a smail defence, our war with Spain taught the world for the first time the lesson that the modern battleship, of thetype possessed by the British navy in num-- bers exceeding those of the navies whose combined opposition to her is possible, is an engine of attack and defence of practically invincible power. The dominion of the seas constitutes the strength of the British Empire, and nothing that has occurred or can occur in South Africa will lessen it, though the indefinite prolongation of the war might scriously impair the British commercial supremacy.—New York Sun.

BRITAIN NOT ALONE.

Great Britain is not the only nation having wars and troubles in distant dependencies. France, constantly en- gaged in fighting the natives in Africa, China and Siam, has lately had her troubles increased by an insurrection in Madagascar, while a rebellion has just started in her West India posses- sions. It was recently shown by gov- ernment returns that the civil and mil- itary expenditure for the government of these ‘colonies’ enormously exceed- ed their exports and imports, As a matter of fact, ihe colonies, so called, constituted a drain on the national ftnanees second only to the army and navy. German cclonial affairs are in a condition little more satisfactory. Recent debates in the Reichstag showed that the colonies are decidedly unprofitable, the expenditure on them having gone on constantly increasing, while their trade is declining. Ger- man East Africa has been devastated by plague and famine, the disirict o Tongo alone during the year of 1899 lost nearly fifty-two thousand out ofa population considerably less than a quarter of a million. This colony costs

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| Germany five times as much as its en- tire trade, and it is ceunted one of the most prosperous of German _posses- SIONS. | colonial railway projects call for the (expenditure of :two hundred million marks, while German trade with Brit

ish colonies amounts to five hundred million marks annually, without en- tailing one mark expense. All this, too, in spite of the fact that both France and Germany have imposed tariffs on their colonies which exclude other nations from trading with them, except at a heavydisadvartage, Thus it appears that the colontal empires these nations have sought to establish in emulation of Great Britain have not

ly experiments. The reason for this appears to be that neither is a coloniz- ing nation. ‘Their colonial system is a sort of paternalism administered in the German possessions by a cut and dried bureaucracy, and in those of France by a politically organized and swarm- ing officialdom. The last place an em-- grating German thinks of going to is a German colony. Emigrants from France are few, for her population is

merely stationary, and conscription acts

asa dete rentto emigration, while at

taining colonial garrisons and prosecu- ting colonial wars.

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