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Interesting Particulars cf the Struggle Between)

Great Britain and the Boers.

IN TUGELA FIGHT.

‘Well. I have been in my first bat- tle. and how I am going to describe the horrors of itto you, I do not know.” Chus writes Sgt. Alfred Mills, former ly of the G.’G. F. G., Ottawa, and now of the Dublin Fusiliers, in des- cribing Buller’s reverse at the ‘Tugeia I

a letter to his mother, Mrs. G.

SUGe bee

Mills, of Second avenue Continuing, the voung Ottawa reguiar says: “The night before the battle we were all | cerved out with extra ammunition so

into action with 150 same time our company officer told us the Irish brigade was to attemptto cross the river in the morning, and try to turn the enemy’s flank. Heasked us to te'l the men to keep up the honor of the old regiment. Revielle was sounded

that each man could go rounds. At the

at 2.30 that morning, and shortly after |

our brigads was on the march towards the Boer position which was on very high hills at the other side of the Tugela. This river is about 30 to 50 yards wide and the Boers had it one mass of barbed wire entanglements. The Irish brigade advanced within rsoo yards of the river in quarter column, and halted, but shortly after was ordered to advance another, 500 paces.

All the commanding officers wanted to extend their battalions, but Gen. Hart wouldn’t have it, and so much against their will, we started to advance again, still in quarter column. There was a square burnt patch just in front of us. distance and when we came near it, the first Boer shell burst right in the center of it, but didn’t do any harm, as it was only intended to find the range. Thesecond one, came a few seconds later, and before we hadtimeto extend, burst right in the middle of my company, and knocked over two whole sections. I was onthe right of the company at this time and it was No. /3 and 4 sections that got the shell and I escap— ed. Ilooked around when it burst

and was almost overcome with horror,

when I saw two of my comrades with

their heads blown clean eff, and the:

remainder of two sections lying on the ground more or less mangled.

MEN DROPPED FAST.

As soon as the effect of this shot was seen by the enemy, its rifle fire com- menced, and as the Boers had all the ant hills marked white, to give them the range, and as we were in a_ broad open plain our men started to drop fast, but we still kept advancing, al- though there were millions of bullets, shells, shrapnel, case shot and machine

After we had gonea short,

however, |

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but hadn't thesatisfaction of seeing any hour under a heavy fire with him tll I of shots taking effect as the Boers were | got help to carry him off. Shortly after completely under. cover in their} I left Dowling a 45-lb shell lit right trenches. ‘To add to the horror of the | under my feet and as good luck would whole battle it was a burning hot day, | have it didn’t burst until it was well and the sweat peured outof us lke| under ground. It flung mea good ten rain, the thirstof some of us being , yard but did not hurt me. Had it worse than the enemy’s fire. I lost; burst sooner it would have blown

my water bottle in the dark before going out in the morning, and was that thirsty than when my mouth was filled with dust I couldn’t spit it out. The only thing | thought of the whole time was where I would get the bullet when it came, as I was certain I cou!d not possibly get back without getting hit. Even the war correspondents who watched the battle said they could not understand how anyone could go into such a hail of lead and steel and live.

IT COST HIM HIS LIFE.

One young fellow of the Enniskillin regiment who was lying beside me, got so thirsty that he raised himself up to drink, at the same time saying to me. “T can’t stand it chum, I must have a drink,” He had the drink and laid down again and was instantly shot dead. As he rolled over he cried “Mother, mother !” and tell dead. Before I saw that young fellow die and heard his last words I was as cool as if I was only on a tield day at Aldershot, but when I heard his last mourntul cry it made me think of you, mother, and all at home, and it was with a very heavy heart that I went on firing till we got the order to retire.

While we were lying so near the enemy we didn’t care a bit for the rifle bullets which do their work clean and neat. What did terrify us was the ter-

| rible shrapnel, case shot and explosive bullets which were on our flanks as we ,

were ina splendid positicn for a_ cross fire. Every few seconds one of these would go screaming over our backs so so close that we would feel ourselves to see if we were wounded and every time we looked to our right or to our left we could see fellows writhing in aw- ful agony from the effects of them.

DEAD IN HEAPS.

The battle lasted from about 5 a. m. till about 4.30 p. m. but most of the in- fantry had retired by 12 noon or two ‘o'clock. I never heard the order to re- tire and was a good half-hour lying with about a dozen of the Connaught Ran- gers and Enniskillen Fusiliers in the firing line before I noticed that the whole army on the right had retired. I then gave them the order to retire, al- though I thought it was certain death to stand up, and as it happened about four of us got out of range without being wounded or killed.

explosive bullets flying around us. All the horrible sights I had seen up

The whole battalion was extended to this time were nothing compared to in the firing line by this time, with our! what I saw as I retired. Every two or three companies of the 1st battalion in three paces I would have to step over the most exposed position. The Boers some poor fellow’either killed or horrib- had burnt all the grass in front of their ly mangled About 400 yards from the position so that the black ground would | river I found one man of my own sec-

show up our khaki uniforms.

We kept making short rushes of about a hundred yards, and firing a few volleys from time to time tii we arriv

tion named Dowling and gave him a drink out ct his own bottle, and when _I saw the terrible wound he had I

| tried to carry him of the field. I called

ed within a couple of hundred of yards! a sergeant of the Second battalion, who

ofthe enemy. We couldn’t very well advance much farther on account of the river being between us and the enemy. It was at this short range that a great many of our fellows fell, as they could easily be seen by the Boers lying on the bare ground.

MARVELOUS ESCAPES.

I managed to get behinda smail tuft of grass about as wide as the palm of my hand, and by shoving my head well into the ground, when the Boer fire became to hot, eluded their fire, but with all my scheming there were thousand of bullets almost touched me. Some of them weni between my legs, some under my arms asI lay on the ground, and more just missed my head by an inch or two. One time I put out my hand flat on the ground and got a bullet between my fingers which, like the rest, just managed to missed me. Another time I crawled behinda ant heap when one of the Enniskilling Fusiliers shouted ‘For God’s sake get away from that ant heap.” I crept away anda second later a shrapnel shell struck it and blew it to atoms, killing and wounding seven or eight men on the other side of it.

The Boers must have thought that

| was near to give me a hand and he has since been mentioned, in the Natal papers over it, but I am not mentioned, although I sat half an

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Some officers of the staff were aston- ished to see me come out alive and gave a cheer when they saw I wasn’t hurt. After that I got safely through and almost drowned myself when I came to water. As soon as I had a drink I came toa feilow with his arm blown off, four miles from the hospital.

When I got into camp I had _ to act as color-sergeant of C company, as all their sergeants were killed but one and he was wounded.

I don’t think we will go to the front again, all our N. C.O.’s being out of action. It is rumored that we go on the line of communication after this,

I was never in such good health in my life as at present. We get plenty of good food to eat. The weather here is always very hot in the daytime, but rather cold and foggy at night, which makes it very uncomfortable on night outpost duty. The remainder of the first battalion are drawn up at Mooi River aud I believe have the band playing every evening. How different with us, we were 260 strong on the morning of Dec. 16. On the same evening we had 135 killed, wounded or missing. Thatsa big enough percen- tage. Including the three companies of the first with the secord our losses brought up a total of 269. Of the ser- geants 7 were killed. I had my stripes off and probably that saved me.

I expect to have fine times on the line of communication, one battle is enough for me.

Sergeant ‘Mills, who repeatedly proved himself a hero under such try— ing circumstances is a brother of Mr. Charles Mills, of the British American Bank Note company, and Mr. Wm. Mlils, clerk in Mr. Edward Mahon’s office.

He left Ottawa about four years ago on a visit to relatives in England and Ireland but having a natural apti- tude and fondness for soldiering en- listed in the Dublin Fusiliers. Being a steady and attentive young man he found promotion, and his friends con- fidently expect Sergt. Mills to secure still higher honors asa result of his heroic conduct in the present war.

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