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WAR IN SOUTH
Interesting Particulars of the Struggle Between Great Britain and the Boers.
WAUCHOPE’S LAM
In the blood stained veldt are sleeping,
In the far Transvaal ;
jaid in earth that’s honorec keeping,
Till the last roll call. “Forward! Black Wat« Marched we right well
All through that darks Ere Wauchope fell.
‘Through the rain the misty ( ree} ing Over the kopje’s cresi; While the wind, like won wee} ing, Sebbed adown its breast Flashed out a falling st “All, was it well ?” Signal of doom afar,
Chere Wauchope fell.
We'd no thought we were so
battle, When the ambushed sam Belched forth fire in murd’r
rattle, Straight into our band. “Halt! charge 2?” \'
them then, Hailed shot and she Fought we like friends
Where Wauchope fe)’.
With his kilted heroes all ar He has gone te (sod ; Ah! we cursed the bullet found him
On the blood-stained sow.
Hon Valiant and free; Death it is passing tau In such as he.
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Hush! they sent the speeding Far acio3s the sea But they heard of glory all Sobbing bitterly. Comrades in war’s red Should we, too, ta May we hear by his sid The last roll call.
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LADYSMITH.
The town, which has a pleasant, homelikeappearance,is the rain center of Klip River county. Chere are thirteen streets, fairly well la:d out, and among the public buildings are the town hall, built at a cost of soine£5,000, a market offce, court house, prison, and fort, government schoo!, post of- fice, public library and reading room, branches of the Natal anc Standard banks, a Roman Catholic sanatorium and school ; and among plaves of wor- ship,churches of the Dutch Reformed, ‘hurch \of South Africa (or Anglican), Wesleyan and Congregational com- munities. The s:reets are not well
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scheme costing #,20,c 7 ' tion includes, besides w some 2,000 natives and nea: Hind: s and other India) immigrated via Durban, coolies, waiters servants, et ent, however, Ladysmith: population is chiefly swoi military defenders. Since
thousands of Imperial trooo]
been stationed here, and t! now, of course, very largel: ed The waterworks. town : ncludes a barrack church and permanent st: some 1, The zg has als« other workshops
> horses. raiway department paiting and srvith,
To the north of Ladysmit! way stuns a mile or so to Or diate junctior, where the | faethe main route bearn (zlencoe, News the Transvaal, while the
wn. branches off dve west tov
Reenen’s Pa
ss and the Dra Mountains. For some time ing Ladysmith the country Spen, Gotted with low stony | Seamed with stone dykes,
fairly pretty scenery opens half an heur’s ride on the m mitdesa trees dec rating
alluv al valleys and farm h peeping out of dense grov 54'H trees, until at sixteen m
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the train ay proaches the | tonely uplands of the coa which Cummences at E Woere the battle was fougt
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junction already mentioned, the Free | are treated in tte Transvaal by those State line sweeps to the west toward ! very hordes of brutal men that are now
Olivier’s Hock, and after traversing an
, Open bare country a_ short distance | northwest of Ladysmith, again crosses | the Klip River and passes by Walker’s Hock, Besters, Colworth and Brakwal stations to the mountain pass. A few miles northwest of Ladysmith on this route a magnificent mountainpanorama opens out, the Drakensberg range into this neighborhood, containing rug- ged, mighty peaks, from 12,000 feet downward. H.H. Smith and other enterprising farmers have excellent farms in the neighborhood, and there are large grazing farms at Besters station, Between Besters and Brak- wal there are high stony kopjes (hills,) witha wide prospect of hill and vale to the eastward. In the thirty miles between Ladysmith and Brakwal the train rises 1,350 feet, although Lady- smith itself feet above sea level.
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ROBERTS SOOTHES CRONJE.
PAARDEBERG, March 4.—Lord Rob- erts’ actual words when he received Cronje were: “I am glad to see you. I am glad to meet so brave a man.”
sick andwounded. ‘The greatest credit is due to the Canadians, if only tor one thing, namely, that despite the hottest fire directed against them, no answering rifle was discharged during their advance. Their steadiness throughout cannot be to highly praised. The whole camp rejoices that our old- est colony has wiped away the stain of Majuba. Lord Roberts himself ex- pressed his pleasure at the work of the
Canadians in the sronget terms. Sentrics with most stringent orders were posted around the evacuated
iaagers and looting here and elsewhere is strictly forbidden. Large quantities of rifles, bandoliers, ammunition carts, wagons and forage were among the lot. ‘There was little else other than the necessaries of war, the remainder having already been abandoned in _ the trenches at Spytfontein and Magers- fontein.
THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
ONWARD TO
Written and dedicated to the gallant officers and men of the famous Strath-- cona Horse, by R. Alonzo Scott.
Onward to the field of battle,
Where the guns and sabres rattle ; Find the Boers—the silly cattle,
And then do not spare a life.
Tho’ in trenches they may shelter,
In their life’s blood make them we ter Until they give up the strife.
Cronje first and Kruger later ; “Round up” every English hater ; Drive “cold steel” through every traitor Who would haul our colors down. Fight with Roberts, French and Buller; Fill each trench with dead Boers fuller; Make the foe respect our Ruler Everywhere they may ge found.
On! brave boys, to Transvaal gory ; And there win undying glory ;
Show the truth of that old story— Of how England’s sons can fight. You are Canada’s pride and flower, Our best men of fighting power ; And we know you'd never cower— With a million foes in sight.
On! then with the Old Flag waving ; On! and stop the foe’s mad raving ; On! and quench their evil craving ; Let them know just what you mean. Trust in God and in yuur powder ; Tell the world in thunders louder— England’s sons are never prouder Than when fighting for our Queen.
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IRISH AND BOERS. The following letter, taken from the Providence, R. I., Sunday Journal of Feb. 18th, will show how the Irish
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AFRICA.
fighting us in South Africa ;—
To the Editor of the Sunday Journal :
1 landed in the country last week having come from Cape Town, South | Africa. I came by the way of Liver- pool, England. Hearing that the Irish, | my own countrymen, are raising money | for the Boers in Providence and vicini- ty, I desire to make a few facts known | to them through your paper, if ycu | will kindly let me.
I have lived in the Transvaal eight years, and I know a few facts about the Boers. In the first place, do they know that an Irishman or any other man never gets justice from a Boer in any court of law in the Transvaai? I will give $1000 to any man who will prove that they did within the last five years.
I will give you a type of the justice. In 1895 I was living in Johannesburg. I was working in the De Beers mines, which were owned by Mr. Rhodes, an Englishman, and Mr. Belt, a German. At that time there were about 300 Irishmen working in the mines.
That year a law was put in force whereby ali children had to go to the Boer school, and all had to learn Dutch. Next door to me there lived a man by the name of Patrick Fahey, who had three children, two boys and a girl. the boys were younger, so he sent them to school, and one day, because the girl could not learn the Dutch, the teacher struck her on the head, and through that blow she went into con- vulsions and died. Mr. Fahey had the teacher arrested, but he was let off, as the teacher was a buer. So Mr. Fahey would not let his boys go to schvol after that. So the Boer police came to arrest him, and because he would not go with them they shot him before the eyes of his poor wife. He lived about two hours after he was shot. Myself and Mike Carroll went and got the priest, but the Boer police would not let him into the house. This occured on the 14th day of October, 1895 We called a meeting of all the miners, both Irish, English and Scotch, and we sub- scribed and got a good coffin and | buried him decently. We decided also to let the English Governor at Cape ‘Yown know the facts of the case. Soj we did. He sent two men to investi- | gate it, but through that twenty of the miners were sent out of the country, | and all the property, furniture and such | like, the Boers confiscated. We that ! stayed got together #115 and sent | Mrs. Fahey and her children back to | Ireland.
I can telf you over twenty cases similar to the above, but I think that will be enough to let you see what the Boers are. I dont love England ; but I say give me English laws as they are in Natal, where every man has equal
rights. ‘That is what England is fight- ing for. ‘There are over 10,000 Irish
volunteers in Natal alone, and we will fight to the death to down the cruel Boers, and I appeal to all lrishmen to help the widows and orphans of the
The girl was about twelve and]
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Irish soldiers wh» fall in batue Lt bave come here on a little business, and I : am going back to Cane Town next | week to fight the Boers and avenge poor Pat Fahey. So, at the last, I say, God Bless oid Ireland and her soldiers who are fighting for a good and just cause !
DANIEL MALLEY.
Dayville, Conn., Feb. 12.
WHY CRONJE SURRENDERED.
Gen. Smith-Dorien’s brigade was the one nearest to the enemy in front. When darkness fell they bivouacked in silence. At 2.40 o’clock in the morning they were ordered to creep forward silently toward the Boer trench- es, but the Canadians and Gordons charged forward for two hundred yards, under cover of volleys from the Corn- walls and Shropshires. ‘ihe firing of the Cornwalls and Shropshires enabled the Canadians to entrench themselves parallel to the Boer trenches. Before dawn there was a distance of only three hundred yards between the Canadiins and Boers, and the former were in such a position that they could enfilade the trenches. The Boers made a brief but stubborn resistance in the semi-dark- | ness. The only effect this had was on the British extreme left, where part of the Canadians scarcely had time to erect cover. Daylight showed the Boers how utterly indefensible their position was. Neither the British ar tillery nor the other infantry division fired a shot, for the reason that the cordon had been so contracted that there was danger of hitting their own men. When the Boers hoisted the white flag,’ Col. Ewart of Gen. Colville’s staff respond- ed and entered the laager. He asked the occupants to pile their arms up, and they quietly complied. Then Col. Ewart sent Gen. Cronje’s message to Lord Roberts.
Of the prisoners taken 2,592 are Transvaalers and 1,327 Free Staters. In the former number 49 Scandani- vians are included, and in the latter 45 artrilerists and two hundred sappers. Among the Boer commanders who were taken prisoners were: Command- ants J. Martins, R. Weit and Vereter ; Field Cornets J. Snyman, J. H. Vande, J. H. L. Bosman, W. L. Lemmer and Bodenhorsts ; Adjutants J. 8. Maree and J. A. Botha; War Commissioner Arnolds, and Acting Field Cornets P, V. Deilliers and G. J. Duplessis.
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—The Times correspondent at Ladysmith, telegraphing recently says: ‘‘We could possibly have held out for six weeks longer, but sickness and pau- city of ammunition would have limited our power of resisting assaults like that of January 6. Originally there were 12,000 soldiers,,2,000 civilians and 4,000 natives in the town. Eight thousand of the soldiers passed through the hospital. The death rate was low till January. The increase was due to’ the exhaustion of medicines. It isim- possible to exaggerate the privations of the sick since the middle of January. Once a man was down he was practi- cally lost. Rations for the fighting men just sufficed to keep them to- gether. The last fortnight saw a ma- jority of the field batteries unhorsed, and guns permanently posted and the cavalry and drivers were converted in- to an infantry. ‘The line of defence was constructed in view of a final con- tingency if the outer works should be carried. a
The London Times pays a tribute to
General White for pessessing one of the greatest and rarest gifts of a leader
‘namely, knowing how to maintain the
spirits of men through a long, dreary period,not merely of danger, and suffer- ing, but of hope deferred. It adds: ‘To General Buller and the relieving force a similar tribute must be paid. Seldom has the absolute confieence of a general in his men been more strik- ingly displayed ; never was that con- fidence more completely justified. General Joubertandthe burghers made a grand defence, and the skill with which they had us in check until the very last moment, and then withdrew, must excite the admiration of com- petent critics,”
The Daily Graphic declares that the story of the siege and relief of Lady- smith will rank asa fine page in British history. General White’s firm
' stand and General Buller’s unquench-
able pluck have shown the world that the British soldier has not falllen a whit from the glorious traditions, which it is his business to maintain. It adds that it is perhaps vain to hope that the triumphs of the past week will bring in their train speedy peace, out one of their results is to give the Britirh a much freer hand, and if con- sistently with the interests of the Em- pire, that hand can hold out an olive branch to the misguided Boers, the valour of the British soldiers will have produced its noblest fruit.
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