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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTBEfOWN, MARCH 1 1900.
ONS REN AAT NR PS: A MR oO Oe RN ETT Be OL CLI VTLS SUR TRE ET AT PA BE
WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Interesting Particulars of the Struggle
Great Britain and the Boers.
EIGHTING FOR THE A YANKI \LUNTEER’S IMPRESSIONS. A letterfrom James F. Vunn, of] t owe!l, Massachusetts, whe is fighting inthe Boer army, has been received by a Lowell friend, Dunn’s narrative
is interesting and floteworthy for its claims concerning the Americ:ins in the Roer ranks, and the total strer gth of the Soer army, which was about 100,000 a. With its strong anti-English bias discounted, the letter still contains yaluable material, since verv few de-- tailed accounts of events are received from the Boer side :
“My Dear Dillon,—When the war broke out brigades of foreigners were organized at once. The Germans have a brigade of 2,000 men or more, nearly all men trained inthe army jn Germany and commanded by men of their own country—trained officers. There is a mixed brigade of French, Scotch and English, who have their own officers, and they are doing good. We have an Irish brigade of over 2,500, the majority of whom are men from California and the West, with quite a sprinkling from the Old Country and the Cape. Our commander is Colon-
; pg } : JSOERS, j will be organized soon, as those things | are to arrive from Europe.
Questioned as to the probabilities of the Boers taking Mafeking, Mr. Tillard, who has recently come down, said “Never !” in a most emphatic manner. “Baden-Powell had 1,200 men at the outside, and now there cannot be many more than 1,000, but they are all pick ed men. ‘hey have six months’ pro- visions, which they only started using on the 1st of December, and he has sufficient ammunition to fight half-a- dozen Transvaals.”
Recently a Graaif-Reinet Dutchman of the vitriolic type, who claims an in- timate acquaintance and knowledge of all matters, met an English friend, and with his eye in a fine frenzy rolling, declaimed against the action of Eng-- land in sending black men to shoot down “onze mense,” The friend asked for an explanation, and the reply came at ence: “Why! have you not seen that the Black Watch is being sent
out ?”
e! Blake, a West Pointer, who used to|
be in the regular cavalry at home, and a jimfdandy, a fighter and a tactician that West Poirt may be proud of.
“We are getting new men every day; they come infrom Lorenzo Marques, and are from every country in Europe and the States. The Americans are mostly husky fellows from the Middle West, who have served in the Spanish war and in the regular army, and we have quite a few from around Boston, New York and Philadelphia. All these fellows, Irish, German and Yank, get into our brigade, for they feel more at home with us, under officers and men who have tollowed the old flag, | and they are giving the ‘Red Necks,’, a3 the Boers call them, plentv of fun.
“It was our brigade bal ut | 1,200 on the firing line that duy—that | scooped in the Irish Fusiliers at Dun-| dee, and had ‘the Boer contingent;
more experience in military matters, |
we could have got the whole cf Yule’s!
bunch, horse, foot and waggons.
Private William Lyons, of the High- jand Light Infantry, who was wounded
iu the Highland Brigade’s engagement
to an old Hospital
at Magersfontein, writing schoolmate from Wynberg ou January 15th, says: “Dear ‘Tom, I write these lines left- handed to let you know that I am get- ing on a}) right. I was severely wound- ed on December 11th, at 10.30 in the We were only 40 yards from I was rising to join in the
worming : Pes ibigune
tne enemy.
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“General Joubert is a foxy o'd chap, ,
and refuses to let us take any chance:
that are uncertain, and he is dead! against any military grand-stanc! tactics. | He won’t allow any charges or attacks | on fortified places; he makes the British do that business, and then he
soaks them. The consequence is that the English lose five men kiled and wounded where we ony one. The English artillery is fairly good, though their guns are not up to ours, but their infantry and cavalry can’t hit a flock of barns. We are now entrench- ed around Ladysmith, with a strong force down at the fords of the Tugela, entrenching and waiting for that ad- yance of the British we are promised : and we have lots of commandes chas- ing down through Natal to keep the flies off the enemy.
We have White and about 10,0o0co men cooped up in Ladysmith, and we will get the whole bunch as sure as shooting. We have the hilis uverlook- ing the town, which is down in a hole, fortifed, and we shell the place oc- casigpally to keep them guessing ; but we es reliance strongly on dirt, disease, and hunger to capture them. The town docsn’t amount to anything but the Johnnies*have about 5,000,000 dols. worth of arms, munitions and supplies that will come in handy. White is in a tight place, and his camp i$ tough; heat dust, rain, mud and anxiety are our allies, and they are badiy demoralized.
They used to make sorties and rush hills’ but we had orders to drop back and let them rush : and when they got ted we cccupicd our old positions and sozked them as they limped back w camp, ‘They were wearing themselves Out.
_ I suppose the English are rushing im all the men they can get hold of, but as we have our backs to the moun- fins and they have to c»me tu us over eurown fortified positions, they will teed a quarter of a million men to do the work. Counting those we lave In the field, those at Pretoria and around, ind the men who have come from
Urore in two months, we can count Upalmost a hundred thousand men ; and we have supplies to last two years. the only thing we are short of is doct ors and medic:nes; we ought to
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| charge, when a shot hit me in the right oem and came out below the jaw, then entered the neck, and went crasb- ing through my shoulder and right lung, and came out at my ribs. I have lost the use of my riglit arm through it, but | I’m lucky not to be dead. Jam now | recovering, but only slowly. I shall | be sent home to Netley when I am fit to travel. It is midsummer here, and, like India, blazing hot. We are being well cared for. In fact it’s a toff’s life —plenty to eat, and two bottles of Bass’s beer for dinner. The doctors are having a busy time of it. This is arare place for practice for young hands among them. Wishing you a bright new year.—Your old chum.— Ww : NAVAL
RESERVE CANA-
DIANS.
OF
Introducing the naval estimates in the British House of Commons Mr. Goschen, the first lord of the admiialty, said the total, with the expected addi- tions, would be £30,000,000. Nothing, he continued, has been put down for the mobilization of the fleet. If mobilization should be necessary the government would not hesitate to mo- bilize and come to parliament for money, but he thought the time had not arrived for taking that course, and he hoped that it would not arrive.
Continuing, Mr. Goschen said that Great Britain was not menaced by any naval power Europe knew her strength and the number of ships she possessed. There were times when a demonstration was advisable, but the government did not think it advisable upon this gccasion. Regarding the export of coal Mr. Goschen announced
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that the government could not prohibi: it unless at war with a foreign power or in an emergency very different from the present. ‘The admiralty, he further asserted, was considering how it would organize anaval reserve in conjuncticn with the colonies. He explained that with an adequate organ- ization the government should get a | very valuable contingent from Canada | and Australia. The negotiations with Canada were very well advanced. Can- ' ada asked that the period of training be reduced, but a final .decision on the subject had not been reached. Dealing with the construction of fresh iron-clads, Mr. Goschen remarked that the Hague convention already seemed athing ofthe dim past. When the peace conference was call-d he suggest- ed that possibly the beginning of further building of war ships might be suspended. With a view’ of ascertain- ing the sentiments of the conference, Great Britain aione, he added, suggest- ed a reduction of armaments, but no- thing was done, and in the six months since the conference more gigantic
patriotism and dividing the spoils among their cotertes. The Afrik ander had been working twenty years for independent Africa. He said that former President Reitz, of the Orange Free State, had years ago made a vow , that his only ambition in life was to |drive England out of Africa. After showing how Kimberley had been de- fer Ged by citizens, of whom 120 had been killed or wounded, and thanking General French tor his gallant ride, Mr. Rhodes closed, brilliantly asserting, ‘We have done aur duty in preserving and protecting the greatest commercial asset in the world—Her Majesty’s Fiag.”
REPLY TO MACRUM.
The answer of the State Department to the House resolution calling for information regarding certain charges made by late Consul Macrum was transmitted to the House on the 21st inst., by the President. It is signed by Secretary Hay and atter reciting the resolution says :-—“The Depart--
programmes, stretching forward eight, sixteen, and eighteeen years had been
tered the minds of the powers Britain proposed to spend in 1900-91
48,460,000, Russia 4,300,000, and | France £4,154,000. The report of
the French naval committee has assert-
ed that material was 40 per cent and
labor 10 per cent higher in France
than in England, and Goschen, there-
fore, judged that the cost of ship build-
ing in France and Russia averaged 20
per cent dearer than in Great Brit--
ain.
CECIL RHODES $SPEAKS.
Cecil Rhodes presided at a meeting | of the De Beers Company a few days ago, and announced that the year’s profits were £2,000,000. Speaking of the war he considered it a puzzle why , it hadarisen. The Transvaal and the | Free State were not republics, he de-| clared, but oligarchies, and had been long Conspiring to seize British South Africa. Each government was simply asmall political gang, who humbugged |
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;er has he so reported since he left
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put forward then ever before grok Charles E. Macrum, late Consul of jreat | j
the United States at Pretoria, South African Republic, since his entrance upon the duties ot the office. Com- munications made to him « have been answered and the execution of in- structions sent has seen reported by — him. His despatches to the depart- ment, forwarded through the Consulate at Lorenzo Marques, have been regularly received. The only instance of com-- plaint in respect to the transit of the mails for Lorenzo Marques and Pretoria was in November last, when a tem-- porary stoppage ofthe mails occured at Cape Town, against which Mr. ; Macrum and the Consuls at Lorenzo Marques protested. Arrangements were made for the prompt delivery of the | consular mails to the Uuited States’ Cape Town by | whom the mail for Mr. Hollis and Mr. | Macrum was forwarded to Lorenzo ' Margues. ‘The delay lasted but a few , days and has not recurred so far as the. department is advised. After that
/ time the department’s mail for Lorenzo
Marques and Pretoria was sent by a. neutral route which, it appears, | was known and open to Mr. | Macrum and Mr. Hollis as_ early as November 16th last. No obsta- cle, therefore is here known to have existed since then to Mr. Macrum’s unhampered correspondence with the Department of State. At no timc while
the department any instance of viola-- tion by opening or otherwise of his official mail by the British censcr at Durban or by any person or persons whatsoever, there or elsewhere. Neith-
Pretoria, although having the amplest opportunity to do so by mail while on | the way home and in person when he reported to the department upon his return. Answering the second part of the aforesaid resolution the under sign- ed Secretary of State, has the honor to say that there is no truth in the charge that a secret alliance exists betwecn the Republic of the United States and! the Empire of Great Britain; that no form of secret alliance is possible un- der the constitution of the United States, inasmuch as treaties require the advice and consent of the senate ; and, finally that no secret alliance, con- vention, arrangement or understanding exists between the United States and any other nation. (Signed). * JOHN HAY. Department of State;-Feb. 20, 1900.
EFFECTIVENESS OF BIG GUNS.
With regard to the effectiveness of modern guns, the following extract
from a_ letter written by Major Albrecht, commander of the Boer artillery, is of interest. Writing
just after the battle of Colenso, he said: ‘lo about 1,000 English shells about twelve men were killed, and thirty or forty wounded, for the rest was done by rifles. Our Boer artillery was by no means as_ successful as I had anticipated before the war. Cer- tainly our people shout splendidly ; but there is a great difference between a gun and a rifle. The English must have suffered heavy losses, but I know that I, with my artillery, had only a
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| The following shows two sides of the | Boer character: In one of the re connaissances during December trom Naauwpoort, Corporal Thomas, of the M. I Regiment. while scouting, ap- proached a kopie and observed two men without arms, who beckoned him to join them, and shouted in English, “There they go,” &c, &c. Nearing the, spot a volley rang out, and the cor- poral dropped with mauser bullets through him. His captors’ first ques— tion, was “Are you an officer?” and on his replying in the negative they gave him water from a bottle and had him removed to Albertyn’s farm near by, where they looked after his wounds which were in the chest, side, thighs, and hand. A number of Dutch gathered around him and spoke of his sins and approaching death, and ex- horted the ‘“‘rooinek” to repentance. To their astonishment, Thomas said faintly that “he did not fear death, as he was assured of God’s protection having done his duty ina righteous cause.” His heaters expressed much surprise that there should be godly men amongs the “rooineks,” and hear- ing more of the wounded man’s words, left debating amongst them- selves whether there was not justice 1 the British cause after ail.
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