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. sy | ; ’ ; Phey ran like deer; couldn't get a shot at them.”

BOERS DEADILY FIRE.

Private Dutton writes of Magers- fontien to his parents at Frodsham- bridge: “I was firing from behind a pitot a bush, on my stomach, for 11 hours. Every time I moved I was shot at. It wasterrible I got away dodging from busi to bush, until I was out of range of the Boers’ shots. Three ofus were behind a bush. A Black Watch man was shot in the neck, One of our officers crawled to him and bandaged him up. He crept back again, when he was shot in both hands; he got up and ran, and was shot in the leg.

RESCUING WOUNDED.

A Devonshire gentleman, serving with Thornycroft’s Mounted I[nfantry as an officer, writes from Chieveley of

the ‘Tuelga battle :-—“I had some ex- traordinary squeaks—a bullet through my loose, baggy breeches without touching me, aad my helmet knocked off twice. I went to the front twice in fetirement under a hot fire, and brought in two wounded men, one of whom was shot again when we were carying him; also the man who was

carrying him by the head (] was at his feet). We pulled he poor chap down into a donga, and then returned with two more men and carried in the man who was carrying No. 1 wounded man, when he was shot through the ankle. How I escaped in such a hail of bullets, God knows. Iwas thanked by my colonel.”

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battle, he says: ‘We got into the firing | cult question. ; : : : : ; . line, and, George, it was the awfullest i in-Chief is, it seems a native of Lou-

day that ever have seen. ‘The Boers shells and bullets were flying about in thousands, and men were falling all over the place. . . .-f hid two narrow escapes—one at the start of the fight, when a shell exploded just in front of me, and a piece of the shell flew just over myhead. The next thing I got was a bullet which hit me in the back but did not hurt me.

A GRATEFUL SOLDIER.

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They even saw that Joubert command- eda regiment in the civil war, and he is declared by an old-time comrade (who writes to the St Louis Globe-Dem ocrat have been one of Stonewall Jackson’s most trusted soldiers. There was great friendship between the two, says this authority. After Appoma- tax, Colonel Joubert, as his rank was, left the country with General Loring and certain other kindred spirits, and took service with the Khedive. From there he drifted to South Africa and| organized the Boer Frontier Police | againsi native attacks. There is no doubt as to his subsequent career.

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A cavalry ‘nom com,” writing to his friends in Maidenhead, from Pieter- maritzburg, says :—‘Lieut. H—— of ours was wounded in the leg at the first Ladysmith fight and came down here for treatment. He recovered and vol- unteered to go up to Frere for the last

fight, but, poor fellow, this itme he was shot right through the head. He is

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“Many of them are without tents, a serions hardship now that the heavy rains are beginning, and the supply of rations to a constantly moving force must be exceedingly difficuit.”

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