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THE BATTLE OF KOODOOSBERG, February 7th When General Hector Macdonald and the Highland Brigade forestalled the Boers, and prevented the junction of two Commandoes. This was the beginning of the manoeuvres which ended in the relief of Kiniberley and the capture of Cronje. (From a sketch by Lester Ralph, Our Correspondent with Lord Roberts.) BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET March 17, 1903
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Garth,. w Youstoun, E-Hivtt an AGAIN that memorable phrase rises to our lips. wept with joy. A moment before they had In our last issue we commented briefly on expected a Boer attack. Guns had been trained the great news of the relief of Ladysmith. We on the approaching horsemen. When they found did not receive until some days afterwards full out their mistake, the garrison flocked out to accounts of the gallant style in which our men welcome their relievers —among them a band fought their way to the rescue of their be- of children, to whom General White gave a leaguered brethren. kindly promise of "sweets and no more siege But when the thrilling reports came through rations." Never were men so welcomed before, — ah! then we knew our men still to be made even the horses received unusual attention from of the great stuff whereof heroes are fashioned, welcoming hands. As evening fell, Sir George still chips of the old block. White made a pathetic speech to those who had We read of General Buller's last, and, as passed through the terrible months of anxiety it turned out, successful attempt to break under his leadership. We can quite believe that, " the Boer lines. On February 20th he had in the words of a correspondent, it was a scene passed three brigades over the river, three never to be forgotten." davs' hard fied-iting: followed, and resulted Meanwhile, it must not be forgotten that it in a check. Would it be final? Desperate was due to Lord Roberts's outmanoeuvring of were the attempts of the Inniskillings, the Cronje that the relief of Ladysmith was able to Connaught Rangers and the Dublin Fusiliers come when it did. If men had not been drawn to dislodge the enemy from their entrenched away from the trenches round Pieter's Hill the task might have remained as impossible as Lord position. On the 23rd andangloboerwar.com24th it was all they could do to hold their own. But they held it Roberts seems to have considered it. This is while General Buller found a passage across the not to undervalue the brave fighters in Natal. Langewachte Spruit and developed a new attack, It must be always remembered that they kept which finally resulted, in the capture of Pieter's their confidence, even while attempting the Hill. The 27th was the day on which this great impossible, and that when their chance came they action took place. Pieter's Hill was approached did not waste it. Soldiers could not have done by a precipitous ascent of 500 feet, but up this better. It means, however, that the interest of General Barton led the gallant Dublin Fusiliers the war now shifts from Natal to the neighbour- and two battalions of the Sixth Brigade. By hood of Osfontein, where General Joubert is this means the enemy's left was turned, and an preparing to oppose our Commander-in-Chief. attack by the Fourth and Eleventh Brigades* General Brabant has driven the Boers from under the general command of General Warren, Dordrecht, the district round Rensburghas been was made on the enemy's main position. As evacuated, Natal is free of Boer troops. The evening fell, the South Lancashire Regiment, last act of the war—as we hope and trust it may by a magnificent charge, carried the position be—is begun. We settle in our seats to watch Splendid men, all of them ! the Armageddon—the pitting of the united Boer Next day Lord Dundonald, with the Natal force under General Joubert against the magnifi- Carbineers and a composite regiment, entered cent army (at least three divisions) which is with Ladysmith. Lord Roberts in the Orange Free State. We The delight of the garrison may well be cannot feel uneasy about the result. Our men imagined, but can hardly be described. Men will be—as always —splendid ! "THE MEN WERE SPLENDID!" BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET March 17, 1900 NOTICES All communications regarding Pictures and Articles to be addressed to " The Editor, Black and Wiiit~ Budget, j./, Bouvene Street, London, E.C.'' " All communications regarding Back Numbers, Terms of Subscription, c?>r. , to be addressed to Tie Publisher, Black and White Budget, 6j, Fleet Street, London, E.C." The Editor requests Correspondents -who may wish to communicate with the Publisher at the same tin:? as they write to* h m, 10 write a separate letter to the Publisher at the address given above, and not add it to their communication to the Editor. The Editor particularly requests that no Poems be sent for consideration. NOTES O' WAR The taking of 4,600 prisoners of war by Lord gallant officer could not have had a better testimonial ! Roberts, when he captured General Cronje's laager, is The King made him the commander of a fine frigate, the greatest number in modern British military history. gave him a pension of four thousand reals, and ordered It is only when the records of the Peninsular War at Lord St. Vincent's letter to be circulated throughout the beginning ot the century are searched that greater all the departments of the Spanish Marine ! captures are found. At Salamanca, lor example, Among the Paardeberg casualties there were given Wellington defeated Marmont and took 7,141 prisoners the names of two soldiers who had been killed by — in 1812. The Duke of Marlborough, during his lightning on February 22nd. More remarkable still, campaigns, took many prisoners. At Ouderarde there one ot the men was No. 3913 Kitchener, of the 2nd were 9,000 of the enemy taken, at Ramillies about 5,000 Gloucester Regiment. Of course it is so hot in South were secured ; while at Blenheim 13,000 of the French Africa at present that there is bound to be thunder- were, at the lowest estimation, made prisoners of war. storms, but noneof the newspapercorrespondents appears The British have now about 6,000 Boer prisoners in to have mentioned any. It will be dangerous work for hand, against less than three thousand English at balloon men, as at Aldershot some years ago, in the Pretoria. At the conclusion of the great French War, presence of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, a a hundred years ago, there were in this country over captive balloon under inspection was struck by light- 50,000 Frenchmen as prisoners of war ! Indeed, ning and several men killed. between the years 1803 and 1814 inclusive, 122,440 The reward that Lord Roberts will receive at the French prisoners were brought to England, of whom conclusion of the war is already being speculated upon. 10,341 died in prisons, 17,607 were sent back to France He is certain to receive a pecuniary reward, and pro- as invalids on parole, many exchanged, and the bably a higher title. As "Bobs'" son, however, was remainder liberated at the conclusion of war. Some killed at Colenso, it is probable that he will claim, like were kept in horrible hulksangloboerwar.comand others in prisons, Dart- Lord Wolseley, the acknowledgment ot his eldest moor Prison holding 6,500 of them. daughter as heiress under special remainder. It is valour of the Irish Brigade, Sir Redvers The under difficult to see how other honours can be bestowed, for Buller, has so touched the Queen that she has sent his full title is Lord Roberts of Kandahar and Water- them congratulation. recall a message of Their deeds ford, P.C., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E, V.C., those of the Irish Brigade of 1691, a body of 14,000 D.C.L., LL.D. The Editor of Black and White has soldiers who quitted Ireland and entered the pay of suggested, the creation of a new order, "The Star of Louis on the signing of the Pacification of Limerick. Africa." Why not make Lord Roberts the first Grand There are eight Irish Infantry battalions at the front, Commander ? two of which— 1 st Royal Irish Fusiliers and 2nd Dublin advance Ladysmith, at the Fusiliers — have been with General White in Ladysmith. Lord Dundonald's into head of the Natal Carbineers, and without the loss of Curiously enough, it is the 1st Battalion Dublin Fusiliers recalls ancestor, that has suffered the most severely in the relief of the a man, some similar exploits of his beleaguered town. Lord Cochrane. When the latter was commanding the frigate Imperieuse, in less than a month he had cut out The Boers are casting aside all the rules of civilised of French harbours and destroyed fifteen of the enemy's warfare. Soft-nosed bullets, which double up in the ships with only the loss of a few men. Another night wound instead ot going clean through, are being used; he went ashore in the ship's boats and captured and while the firing on ambulances is a daily occurrence., destroyed Fort Roquette, beside a great quantity of At the Battle of Majuba Hill, on February 27th, 1881, military stores, without the loss of a man! the Boers fired on the Red Cross flag without the slightest compunction. Corporal Farmer, the only man When General Cronje met Lord Roberts he could who won the Victoria Cross at the battle, was wounded only speak through an interpreter, yet it is a matter of twice while waving a bandage to show the Boers that general knowledge that he can speak English when he they were firing wrongly. The enemy have used their chooses. The use of an interpreter, however, allows ambulance frequently to cover their advance or retreat, the wily Boer time to frame his replies, for he will and they probab 1 " vnagine that the British also do such understand the questions immediately without appearing sneakish tricks. to do so. This is also a favourite practice of President readily in English on ordinary When General Cronje came into the English camp Kruger, who converses being to surrender, Lord Roberts shook him by the hand matters, but who insists upon an interpreter employed State matters are talked. and said, " You have made a gallant defence, sir." when This recalls one of the most pleasant stories of the A rather pathetic case is that of a Bradford soldier famous Admiral, Lord St. Vincent. Some of his who has been killed at Paardeberg. His proper name squadron had captured a Spanish ship, but not before was Paul H. Hodgson, and he enlisted under the name all the officers of the latter had been killed or wounded. of P. Howe— his Christian names— unknown to his When the commandant was better, Lord St. Vincent patents two years ago, and never wrote home till he gave him his liberty and sent a letter to the Spanish was going out to the front with his regiment, the Government highly commending his bravery. The 1st West Ridin«\ . March 17, 19:0 BLACK AMD WHITE BUDGET 5 Mr. C. Macdona, M.P. , writing' to the Times, sug- placed the waif under the care of a soldier's wife, had | gests that the present is a most opportune lime for I her educated when she grew up, and then married her! recognising the valour of the Irish soldiers by forming: i It looks as if there was a very narrow escape from a regiment of Irish Guards. We should not be sur- i disaster at Durban recently, when, during a hurricane, the proposal came to something; but then j se cra] transports dragged their anchors and had to Wales would want Welsh Guards! Still, why. not ? \ u\ ou to sea to escape destruction, During the The Scots Guards is one of the oldest regiments in the i E. . rlmean War there raged one of the most fearful in Annv, having been established in the year 1660 Scot- j ,,,,, slorms experienced, wh, 1, blew away the sold.ers' ten landi and since 1689 it has been in nearly every cam-! and wrecked no less than twenty-one transports off paign of importance. The colours bear over fifty battle result ! Balaclava. The of the disaster was greatly felt honours. troops, for of , by the one the ships had on board the Field-Marshal Lord Ror.ERTs'sdispatchannouncing clothing sent for the use of ill-clad j warm the soldiers, the surrender of Cronje on the anniversary of Majubaj Hill dispatch of Marlborough Lord Roberts is one of those few living men who reminds one of the famous | had statue erected in their after the Battle of Blenheim, written in lead pencil on a i have a honour. When the scrap of paper resting news, of Cronje's capture on a wall. It was sent reached Calcutta, the to his imperious— wife, statue there of Roberts and ran : "I have not was decorated with time to say more than to flowers and floral tri- I ff II beg of you to present butes, one bearing the e« Outpost *»y «*S my humble duty to the legend, " Majuba THAT AN* Queen, and to let her I fiESSEMSEH Avenged." Cawnpore Majesty know that her 1 ENEMY APPROACHM^ also sent a message, army has gained a I YOU ar* probaWy which said, "Your birth- glorious victory. MORS "JUMPY place salutes you." Lord Monsieur Tallard and Roberts's only surviving two other Generals are son, who was killed at ON THE WARCH, in my coach. The Colenso, was also born bearer, Colonel Pack, THE HOTTER THE DAY Tiff in India— at Umballa, will give her Majesty WORE IMPORTANT if IS NOT Punjaub. an account of what THE END. has passed. — Marl- TO DRINK TILL ANinterestingdiagram borough." Carry *oai«thm» ia sfee oeatfe t* has been made showing keep it Bseisl the effect of the war on Looting by British the leasures of the Lon- f. soldiers is strictly prohi- doner. Both theatre and bited, but after the cap- Look to your Feet at restaurant appear to ture, laager of Cronje's, suffer equally on the Lord Roberts allowed the end of a March, angloboerwar.comnews of a reverse, and his men to take what SWEAT WILL to benefit equally on the they wanted from the ill MU SflM FEET. news of a victory. When Boer camp, in few A«, the feet swelt with and a we won the battle of Marchmg, the wise man chooses jiffies Tommy was going Elandslaagte there was big enough Boots. to his quarters laden "standing room only" with clothes, kettles, SEIMES at the theatres and cups, and even umbrel- NO 010 umfMmtK 9H 1HE MARCH.' music-halls, and men las ! the diary of From were taking their cham- a private soldier pub- ONCE DRINK. AND ONE pagne and oysters at the lished time ago, it some WANTS TO DRINK ALU restaurants. But a week appears that after the THE WAV. later, a steady fall storming of Badajoz, Sat carry fall Water Bstttes brought business to a Wellington, strict as he dxmk at ttse mi. standstill by the time of was, allowed the sold'.ers the reverse at Nichol- to have four hours' plun- son's Nek. It rose dering ! slightly on the news of Some Sensible Notices drawn up by Captain Howell, of the There is no doubt but 2nd Battalion Worcester Regiment General Buller's arrival that our soldiers are be- at Cape Town, and since coming very learned in the art of war, and that they will then it went up and down steadily with the varying be extremely dangerous foes to meet afterwards. Thev news from Natal and the M odder. After Lord Roberts are taking cover now in a way which all the training at arrived business was good for awhile, reaching the Alder.-hot could not have taught them. A party of top on the news of the taking of Spion Kop, only to Yorkshire Mounted Infantry, according to one of the sink down two days later when it was abandoned, to soldiers' letters, neatly outwitted a party of seventy "Business stagnant" at the theatres, and "roll and Boers. The Yorkshiremen drew the enemy over a butter" at the restaurants. The barometer of the war bridge, which was then blown up, and the trapped is now well up. May it ever remain so. enemy bayoneted without the loss of one Englishman! There is a passage in a letter from a trooper of th. After the capture of Pieter's Hill, just previous to Cape Mounted Rifles who has been attached to Mont- the relief of Ladysmith, some children were found in the morency's Scouts which reads sadly to-day. He says: — Boer trenches, one being a very little one lelt behind " We are attached to Captain Montmorency, V.C., who wrapped in a blanket. Years ago, in the island of won his cross at Omdurman. He is a fine fellow, good- Maurit'us, there was a very beautiful lady who had a looking, and very reckless. I am afraid he will not strange history. She was picked up as a baby on the come out of the war alive. He is a good man, and the fidd of Waterloo, and never knew her parents ! Her Boers are alraid of him." The writer's prophecy as to discoverer was an ensign of the German Legion, who Captain Montmorency has proved only too true. BLACK AND WHITE BUDGE 7 March \j, 1900 General lias Gatacre given the 2nd Royal Berk- Tommies who took part in that desperate struggle to shires a new name. "It did look grand in the dark," reach Ladysmith, and sees how calmly and confidently " writes one of them describing a night attack. There they met reverse after reverse, one appreciates Un- was the hill, and there were three tiers of lire from the meaning of the phrase. After Spion Kop a Bandsman enemy ; but being close under the hill our loss was nil. in the Royal " Welsh Fusiliers says : The position was Our Major gave the command 'fix bayonets,' and they no use owing to there being no' water, and the troops went home with such a click that the Boers couldn't had to retire to their old positions with heavy losses. stick it. Our boys got that hill, and it has been nanrd But we are sure of success. Before another month is after the ' Major who was first up, McCrackan's Hill.' out Ladysmith will be relieved." Another writer after The General, who witnessed our work, gave us a good the third attempt to break through the Boer lines : name, and called us the ' Iron Chests,' which name we "We are going to attack them again shortly, and the will keep ' for that day in place of Green Tigers,' which men are all in the best of spirits and anxious to get. at was our former name." them again, and this time I am sine British residents in Buenos Ayres we will relieve Ladysmith." And have not been behind their brethren '/,.. they did ! all over the world in rallying to the 1 tft^ yitwilMi^MM'' Who can wonder that a General, assistance of the Empire in the pre- of whom such stories as the follow- sent war. The organisation of a corps ing are told, is popular with the of British volunteers from that coun- Tommies ? One day when Lord try was undertaken by Mr. Henry Roberts was driving along the quay Somerwell, known locally as Setior at Dublin, he saw a private in the Enrique Somerwell, an ex-officer in Fusiliers who had been indiscreet the British Army who has been for and indiscriminate in quenching his five years a resident in Villaguay. thirst and was in consequence un- A hundred and fifty men offered them- able to keep on the pavement, but selves, and of these about twenty of rather showed a tendency to get under the most efficient were chosen, among the wheels of the passing cars. "Bobs" them being Mr. John Wood, who was equal to the occasion : he stopped fought at Tel-el-Kebir. The ss. Mab, and hauled the Tommy on to the which was chartered to carry the vacant seat in his car, saying, "You'll volunteers to the Cape, set sail on be safer there than on the pavement.'' January 17th. Well done, Buenos So the General conveyed the private Ayres ! to the barracks. And the latter did A good deal of difference of opinion not care after that what punishment seems to exist as to the humanity and befell him. the reverse of the Boers. Probablv • Here is another story (from the true view is the common-sense !\T. A. P.) of the popular hero of the one which comes from a Grenadier at hour. Just before Lord Roberts left Modder River. "You ask me what for South Africa, a friend met him in 1 angloboerwar.com " think of the Boers," he writes. Saekville Street, and said : So you " Well, I must say that for artfulness are once more going to take the they will take some beating. We call field?" There was a twinkle in the them cowards because they won't deep-set eyes of Lord Roberts as, with come out and fight us in the open, characteristic modesty, he replied : but when we come to think of it we " I am only going to see what my cannot blame them. For though boys are doing!" What "Bobs'" they are good shots they are not boys have been doing the whole regular soldiers, and they have no world knows. discipline whatever. There are some The letters which have come to cowards among them, the as same hand describing the fighting on Spion there are among most other nations. Kop show war in its most terrible I mean those who fire under the white aspect. . "The kraal on the summit," flag." Some good, some bad, that writes a trooper in Thorneycroft's be the verdict. qualities must Both Mounted Infantry, was a " regular individual show more in acts than in butcher's shop, men being simply •our army, because the units are blown to pieces before my eyes. .. independent. Scoundrels more and One poor fellow who was covered are, therefore, in a better cowards with blood begged me to shoot him position to show their character than Mr. Henry Somerwell, who organised the I could volunteer corps Buenos to put him out of his miser}'. in a more disciplined army. at Ayres not stand it, and had to go away In our description of Mr. J. Walter Wallis's collection and leave him." A private in the Scottish Rifles sends •of pipes last week we should have said that the photo- the following description of the ghastly scene:—"A graphing was due to him and the printing of the shell," he says, " slid over my back, took the inside out pamphlets and photo -mounts to Mr. Foote. Mr. of one man, and went through another's arm and thigh. Wallis has already twice the number of pipes in the Another man had both his legs blown off, and the next heap which were there represented 10,000. The man had one leg hanging only by the skin. They generous donor would like those who have friends at never murmured. I saw two of the Middlesex burning the front who would care for pipes to send their where the shells had set fire to their clothes." Such addresses to him at 47, Loughborough Park, Brix- horrors could be multiplied, but these quotations will ton, S.W. He also wishes us to express his thanks to serve to give an idea of the grim realities of war. a number of our readers his who have responded to In one of the Free State commandoes no less than request. He finds it impossible to acknowledge ten languages are spoken. It looks as if the Austrian separately all the parcels of pipes he has received. Emperor were right when he said that all the riff-raff of " The men are splendid," wrote General Buller in Europe was fighting against Britain in the present war. one of his dispatches. When one reads the letters from No such confusion of tongues since Babel ! " March 17, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET his comrades drove them off with their pistols, and while the corporal held two of the horses, the two officers tried to lift Grenfell's body on to the third. The Lieutenant was quite dead, bleeding from more than a dozen wounds. As they placed the body across the saddle the horse shied and bolted, throwing it to the ground. The three would-be rescuers had then to retire, keeping off the pursuing Dervishes with their revolvers. '' An Empire in Arms " is a stirring song, composed by Mr. Walter Wyatt, Mus. Bac, and written by H. G. Haydon. It has received the honour of gracious acceptance by her Majesty the Queen and has every chance of becoming popular. It is published at 4s. by Messrs. Methven, Simpson and Co., of Edinburgh, and all profits go to the Widows and Orphans' Fund. Here is the chorus which is set to a swinging march : " Raise the Standard, plant the Standard, Fling defiance at the foe, See the old flag's roll of glory In the sunlight blaze and glow. Raise the Standard, plant the Standard, Couch the lance and drive the foe, See the old flag's roll of glory, In the sunlight blaze, in the sunlight blaze and glow." A trio who greatly distinguished themselves at the battle of the Modder was Lance-Corporal Bennett, Sergeant Casser and Private Mawhood. When the Rev. James Robertson, Chaplain to Scottish Forces Yorkshire Regiment were bringing in their wounded now in South Africa they were suddenly and fiercely attacked by the Boers. These brave soldiers grasped the situation in a minute The Reverend Robertson, James whose portrait we and were ready with a remedy. Fearlessly risking their publish this week, is Chaplain to the Scottish Forces now own lives, they knelt in the open and by continuously in South Africa. He is an old campaigner, having- the firing on the Boers managed to draw their attention medal and Khedive's star for the Egyptian campaign of from the Manchesters to themselves. The work of 1885-86. He took part in theangloboerwar.comGordons' route march, rescue was thus able to go safely forward. We publish and was prominent in rendering the services of his this week the portrait of Private Mawhood, one of the calling after the battle of Magersfontein. gallant three, who also wears the medal for the last Indian Frontier War. It is not generally known that Colonel Baden-Powell is ambidextrous. It is said to have been Ruskin who advised his mother to let him use his left hand as much as his right. This peculiarity is of great value to him when scouting, owing to the rapidity with which he can make sketches— using both hands at once. The story of how the late Captain Montmorency won his "penn'orth of bronze" is worth telling again. It cannot be better told than in the vigorous words of Mr. A. Hilliard Atteridge in his Wars of the Nineties :— " Several lances broke in the charge, and some of the swords failed at a critical moment. Lieutenant Wormald's sword bent as he struck at an Emir with whom he was engaged in single fight ; but he stunned him with a blow of the crooked blade. Captain Fair's sword snapped on the linked coat-of-mail of another of the enemy's leaders, and he dashed the hilt into the face of the Dervish. Altogether, in less than two minutes, twenty-two of the Lancers were killed and more than fifty severely wounded. Of the horses, 119 were killed, many of them just struggling out of the hollow and falling dead as the regiment rallied close to the enemy. It was during this rally that some of the bravest deeds were done, individual officers riding back to bring off wounded or dismounted comrades. Major Wvndham had lost his horse, and was trying to mount behind Lieutenant Smith, who had turned back to help him. He had failed in two attempts when he was lifted up by Captain Kenna, who came riding back, accompanied by Lieutenant de Montmorency and Corporal Svvarbrick, all bent on saving young Grenfell if he still lived, and, if not, carrying off his body. Grenfell was lying on the nearer slope of the hollow, and a of number Dervishes Private Mawhood, of the King's Own Yorkshire Light were hacking at with their him swords. Kenna and Infantry. (See " Notes o' War ") — ' BLACK A XI) WHITE BUDGET March 17, 1900 C. R. Day, Oxford L.I. Lieut. G: H. Deacon, ol Br .bant': Lieut. -Col. A. M. Carthew-Yor.stoun -Wounded, Paardeberg Horse. (See below) Black Watch— Wounded, Paardeburs Lieutenant G. H. Deacom is a prominent member General French is called by his men " The Safety of Colonel Brabant's Horse, which has just made its Valve." " We all trust him," writes a member of the name familiar at Dordrecht. He was for some time in R.A.M.C. from the base hospital near Colesberg. the Cape Mounted Rifles, and afterwards led two expe- ditions to explore some ancient goldtields close to the The tide of generosity to the troops at the front must Zambesi. During' the earlv months of the present war not be allowed to ebb as the war goes on. The first he was engaged in the arduous and responsible task of, batcli of presents must be now nearly exhausted. More buying remounts for the Imperial Government. He is people are wanted to emulate Mr. Y. V. Bowater, who distinguished member of a distinguished corps. is sending out to the C.I.V.'s 25,000 cigarettes nl 1,500 tins of tobacco. A vivid story is told by a correspondent of the Daily 7'clegraph of a charge of the Gordons to recover some It is not generally known that General French is 111 s mgars which had been taken by the Boers from the author of a standard work. This is the current Cavalry Manchesters. It occurred in the attack on Ladysmith drill-book which was re-written by him after the com- on. January 6th: — "Forward the 'Gay Gordons' plaints about the shortcomings of that arm of the sprang over the rough, rockv ground, firing as they service in the Berkshire manoeuvres of 1894. The went, and losing men at every step. The Boers waited book is something more than a mere drill-book : it ue.fil they were almost within reach before breaking contains valuable information, with hints on all points arid running away. Oneangloboerwar.comBoer alone waited for the connected with cavalry — organisation, tactics and steel. He was quite a young man, and knelt coollv strategy, and is written in clear, vigorous English. Liking aim at Colour-Sergeant latter Prvce as the 1 rushed forward with his bayonet. The sergeant and Private Copsev, ot the East Surrey Regiment, con- the Boer tired at the same instant, and each wounded siders himself a lucky man. That he was not killed the other. But the Gordon was able to keep his feet by the terrible wound he got is certainly an instance of till he reached his foe ; then once, twice, the? steel went the extraordinary escapes we mentioned last week, j " home, and he fell unconscious across the prostrate body I On January 21st he writes : I got a terrible smack in I of Lieutenant Hunt-Grubbe, who had been lying a ! the nose. I thought had been kicked by a mule, prisoner and uninjured in it bullet, which clean among the Boers the sangar. \ but was only a went through the The dead Boer, the wounded sergeant and the officer middle of my nose, through the roof of my mouth and lay in one heap, and tor the moment the soldiers roots of my tongue, and out at the back of my neck, all it thought three of them were dead. Afterwards, | It was about half-past five a.m. when I got hit, and when Pryce was carried away, it was found that he was seven at night when the stretcher took me off the had been hit in thirteen places, but the only really field. I lost a lot of blood all this time. I expect to serious wound, however, was that inflicted by the always have a stiff neck, but that's better than being Boer whom he killed, We publish this week a portrait dead, so I must not grumble, for there are thousands of Sergeant Pryce. worse off than 1 am." Lieat.-Col. Hoskier, Montmorency's Colour-Sergt. Prvce, of the Gordons Major-Gen. C. E. Kmx—Wounded, Scotits-—Killed, Schoeman's Farm Wounded, Ladysmith, January 6. Paardeber (See above) —— March 17, 19:0 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Lieut. C. F. Dixon Johnson, Lieut. V. F. A. Keith-Fal- Lieut. W. R. Wing-field cth Dragoons — Wounded, coner, 2nd Somerset L. I.— Digbv, 1 st Rifle Brigade Kimberley Killed, Tugela, Feb. 20 Wounded, Tuerela, Feb. 20 angloboerwar.com Capt. Gubbins, Shropshire Capt. R. A.. Smith, Shrop- L.l. — Wounded, Paarde- shire L.I. — Woui.ided, berg Paardeberg Captain the Hon. R. H. L. J. de Montmorency, V.C., who was killed at Schoeman's Farm Sec. -Lieut. F. S. Cavendish, Sec.-Lt. G. A. Akers-Douglas, Sec.-Lt. Hon. M'Clintock- t,th Lancers — Wound -d, A. and S. Highlanders - Bunbury, 2nd Dragoons Koodiosberg Wounded, Paardeberg Died of wounds, Kimberley GALLANT VICTIMS OF THE WAR IO BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET March 17, 1900 angloboerwar.comTaking' the wounded to the ambulance Bandaging a man with a shattered jaw. (Photos by Ren6 Bull, Our Special Correspondent) TO RELIEVE LADYSMITH March 17, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 11 Draggingangloboerwar.coma half-drowned mule out of a drift on the Tugela Travelling over a portion of the railroad between Frere and Chieveley. (Photos by Rene Bull, Our Special Correspondent with General. 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Angus Hamilton, Our Correspondent with Colonel Baden-Powell) THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING 20 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET March 17, 1900 o O- Jo o a O .'• angloboerwar.com o "a o c ~o o 4-1 CJ _ T3 O C 3 >O c a. 3 < 21 March 17, 190J BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET e-S • — 3 •c-S- s r-Ss — .Si «S -"« 0* *-r r/i O *^ -3.C' id .3 •5 & .-3 c mma m « P- n 73 99 1-. SO -t SP ll a _r> -0 U. c a as Oi c u <3> a u n £ -3 a) >-. Bi £> ts JS ft (ll It -rt a (S *-* angloboerwar.com (1. SS u m =i '3. ,3 >i f>r G 3 j^ O nj +J u d> Oi en r] O 5= a U 3 OJ -a "^""^v^. SU 0. „ r '"•;- *» T) v '' \ ***? ': ; O U ft ^ CJ /-•-vii^ < J v >1 Vv 0/ i ^ \ x u > >. 3 O T) '-+— rt IIP | n a; c a; c 01 < (th 2.) BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET March 17, 1900 angloboerwar.comArundel Camp Tommy's rations : Packing stores, Modder River March 1 7, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 23 9 Q angloboerwar.com The battle of Slingersfontein : Effect of a lyddite shell on a Boer laager. (Drawn by S. M. Laurence, Our Special Correspondent) 24 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET March 17, 1900 THE END OF THE WAR (from a respected correspondent) Bedlam, Friday Night. As with Lord Kitchener, everything fell out exactly Amon". the many gifts I f>osscss which are not as the jolly Admiral had foretold. The Sphinx spurned. appreciated outside these walls is that of second-sight. Liberty hailed, the steamers splashed, and the firemen Having grown weary of reading the daily papers lately, pumped with a will for fiiteen days and fifteen night-, I thought last night I would take a look into the without so much as a single pause for breath. Even future and see what the end of the war would be. And the novelty of the mode of sailing had not time lo pall in the course of half an hour I had seen it all as plain on the crews. Indeed, they had scarcely got accus- as a pike staff. tomed to it, for they soon found it wanted a new kind This was how it came about : Towards the end of of leg which was rather hard to cultivate — neither a April, iqoo, President Kruger had safely turned the land leg nor a sea leg, but a queer mixture of both. " " key which made the last of the British soldiers in South Pretoria a-hoy ! cried the man on the look-out at Africa a prisoner in Pretoria. In England there were daybreak one fine May morning. fierce debates in Parliament, and the natio.n was In a brace of shakes the jolly Admiral was on deck, divided— one-half, led by Sir Henry Campbell-Banner- where all were leaning over the bulwarks ragerly strain- nr:m, Mr. Courtney, and Mr. Stead, being for deposing ing their eyes for a first glimpse ot the town. " the Queen and asking Oom Paul to become absolute Steady, my lads ; easy does it," carolled Lord autocratic ruler over Britain and all her possessions Charles with his eyes in his binoculars, which were ; " while the remainder, under Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. pointing due north. From the look of things I should Goschen, were for giving the Navv a chance. After say they were not expecting us yet awhile. Anyway, much wrangling, the latter party won. we'll try and take them unawares first, so not a cracker And the zeal and ingenuity displayed by all the to be fired by anybody." officials entrusted with the defence of their country "Aye, aye, sir," chimed in the crews in muffled were worthy of the glorious traditions of our race. voices, for they were not on sufficiently intimate terms The spirit of invention ran rife throughout the land, with the Boers to know whether or not they were light and the various Government offices were so besieged sleepers. with suggestions that a special department had to be Gradually the fleet crept towards the unconscious created somewhere near Whitehall for the purposes of town, and, to the satisfaction of all, the man at the giving them preliminary tests and such-like things. mast-head reported that the other squadrons were con- Of course, Lord Charles Beresford was given supreme verging from all sides. The lieutenants thereupon command, and on being called before the authorities remarked to the midshipmites how admirably the move- submitted his plan of campaign, which was accepted ment had been timed, and the mites communicated the by an overwhelming majority. intelligence to the men as though it were their own " Keep up your peckers, my hearties," he jovially original observation, and the tars pretended not to see " remarked ; what the Army can't do the Navy can, so through them, the sycophants ! it's all the. same in the longangloboerwar.comrun. I propose to go When the vessels were within a hundred yards of the straight for Pretoria ; it's easy enough. I can take a town, the Admiral's flagship grounded on the gravel short cut down the Nile with the Mediterranean of the Presidential garden. Squadron —Aden's so beastly unpleasant that I always "Sluice a saucerYul of water over her prow," cried avoid it if I can. Besides, there will be comparatively cherrv Charles to the firemen who escorted him on little pumping for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade shore, for he was anxious to effect a speedy landing. (which will accompany me on land to sprinkle gentle " 1 haven't quite enough water to rush the blockade yet. dews in my path) to do, except short bits between Lakes Don't keep us longer than you can help, old chaps." Tanganyika and Nyassa, which hardly count. I shall The firemen, having themselves been in the Navy in bring the ironclads on to the ocean again at the mouth their early days, not only did what was expected of of the Zambesi, where they will have. time to recover them : they did more, and threw a whole bucketful. their sea keels again during the run to Delagoa Bay. The huge leviathan lurched forward, and the next There (he Sphinx will be in readiness to start spurning moment Lord Charles had stepped jauntily on to the with her paws landward over veld and kop, the waters verandah, just in time to be received by Mrs. Kruger, on which our men-o'-war are to ride proudly to Pretoria, who, being an ideal haus-frau and an early riser, had where I expect to run my flagship ashore in the back come out to shake a duster. She was a large-hearted gaiden of the Presidential Residence, and so take the woman— to judge from her waist. weary sentries unawares. Should I get stuck on the " Really," she simpered, holding out her hand (for way for want of liquid, I have already arranged with she recognised him at a glance from descriptions in the Miss Liberty Statue to step out of New York Harbour papers), "really, Mrs. Queen Victoria has paid me a and help bail with both hands. Moreover, at various most graceful compliment in sending us the only Scally- points of the coast of the African Continent cross- wag, and I cannot do less than return it in kind. I Channel paddle-steamers will be stationed to churn up dare sav vou have found my hubby a trifle troublesome strong backwashes which will supplement the labours to deal with now and again ; but 1 know his little ways of the Fire Brigade, who will constantly serve the fleets and can manage him quite easilv. with salt water through endless lengths of hose which " Oo-npy, Oompy, my beautiful." shecriedin strident will be played on land in front of us. tones, turning her broad back on her guest ; "leave off " As lor the Pacific and China Squadrons," he con- caging Slim Cecil, and come here quickly, and give tinued, " I am afraid they will have to scrum over- Bonnie Charlie the Sealey-wealys and other things he land as best they can by way of Durban; while the wants." remaining side of my triangular attack must be With evident reluctance the greatest Ultimatumer of entrusted to the North Atlantic Squadron, which must his age stepped forward. His one weak point, which charge with all its might across Damara Land, through no diplomatist had ever been able to discover, was now Bechuanaland, and over-the hills to the north of the laid bare by the wife of his bosom. O, woman, woman I Transvaal capital, where we should arrive -simul- Resistance was useless ; there was nothing for it but to taneously. In order to do this it may be necessary to obey. give the last-named fleet a bit of a start, which can And the hand-shake which followed may be said to easilv be arranged." have sealed the fate of two promising republics. March 17, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET angloboerwar.com 26 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Makcii 17, 19:0 angloboerwar.com Wf O ! he's wakened up ! " " March 17, igoo BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET PLAIN SOGERS No. II. THE HOWLY TIRROR!" "Well, and what are ye grumblin' about now, tussle for it. But they didn't loike th' bay'nits, and Kelly?" asked Sergeant Dugari, as he joined the group afther givin' one of his men a smash in th' jaw, I saw of his old comrades of Company F. him take his gun away from him. " " " ! ! cries from Thin he marched forward wid it Hello Dugan Hello Dugan went up clubbed ; he made the circle. a foine figure ; and death and desthruction lay in his " Hello yourself," he replied, good-naturedly. path. He wor a howly tirror ! I saw two of our " 1 wor just remarkin'," responded Private Kelly, officer b'yes go down undher his hand, and a third seriously, ." that it is not always plisint to have to do only escaped because a privit shtood in th' way, and one's duty." wor obligin' enough to go down for him. Maybe some " " "Aw, ye're always complainin' about somethin' ! of yez saw him ? commented Slater from where he was playing "solo" " Yeh, I remimber th' man," said someone. with Rafferty, none too respectfully. "Yis, and he wor a tirror," said someone else. " Yis," said Rafferty, "just as if kapin' one's roifle " Will," continued Dugan, " whin he got to th' top in good ordher and havin' clane socks wor hard work, of th' hill, he shtayed there ; and whin th' others sav/ to say nothin' of a guard or two." what he'd done, and wouldn't come to thim, they came " " 6, O ! laughed the crowd. to him ; and it wor all so suddin', we decided to go back " Sure it's a palthry moind ye have, Rafferty," a shtep or two to get our breath again. And go back responded Kelly, " and not above loife's basest common- we did. " places ; so I won't "discuss the matther wid ye Will, afther layin' down and sindin' thim our com- ! • lurder pliments from a distance fer awhile, our officers " It's a palthry moind I may have as ye say, Kelly," thought we moight thry our luck again, and strange replied Rafferty, working himself up. " But, ye poi- to say, th' very thought seemed to shtroike th' other faced galoot, I've a hand what can split yureself in fellers at th' same toime. two; and if yez sav another word I'll show yez blamed " So we both got at it again fer all we wor worth, quick." and th' big whiskered chap in the very midst ! " And then, in keeping with the etiquette of the Irish He braved th' army single-handed ; and whin I saw Foot, there was a general laugh all round, and counter th' way he fought I says to mesilf, ' Ye big black devil, cries of, "Go it, Rafferty!" " Say th' word, Kelly!" V loike to shake ye by th' hand, if ye had nothin' in th' &c. ; when Dugan unexpectedly interrupted. other.' But I had me duty to tind to. " Howld yer timper, Terince," he said to Rafferty " Will, he came to our loine loike a naygur running ; and then, turning to the man next him, he said, " Shut amuck, and it wor a pity whin I saw young Liftinint " up ; for Kelly is roight ! Beringer of my company go down before him. But he The crowd looked at Dugan at this, and then wor comin' my way, and I filt tc mesilf I wor sorry for gradually shut up for they knew th Sergeant was a , of us. ; angloboerwar.comwan great story-teller. " Will, on he come, and as three min shtood in " What is it, Dugan ? " asked a man opposite. his way he pushed thim out of it wid a love tap apiece, " I quite agree wid Kelly," replied Dugan, looking and shtill proceeded. < in his direction, " that th' doin' of one's duty sometimes " I cud see he wor bleedin' in two or three places, is hard." And then, turning to Kelly, " But it must be and th' shweat wor pourin' down his face that thick ! done that it dhripped off th' bottom of his whiskers loike a " " Ye're right there," responded Kelly. "It must ! shower bath ; but I had no more toime to see this; and "Shut up!" commented Slater, "ye're inther- that his eye looked woild, whin he wor on me as big ruptin'." as loife." "And what is there hard? What's th' story, "And what did ye do, Dugan ?" asked one or two Dugan ? " asked the man opposite. hushed voices. " Yis. Go ahead, Dugan," said the crowd. " I did th' only thing for me to do," replied Dugan, " " Yeh, go on," said Kelly. and at the toime I felt it came hard ; but I looks sure, " Will thin, I'll tell ye," said Dugan, obligingly. and says, ' Ye divil, here's at ye,' and I give him a And after looking for a place to sit down, he began. brave man's reward." "I found Kelly's words thrue only last week; and " A brave man's reward ? " echoed the man opposite. though it come natural, the duty wor shtill hard. " A brave man's reward," repeated Dugan. Maybe ve'll remimber th' day we wor goin' over th' " And what was that ? " asked Kelly. hills so noicely in apple-poi ordher dhrivin' thim Dootch "A bullet," replied Dugan. b'yes before us in shtoyle, whin all of a suddin' th' sons- And the crowd understood. of-guns turned 'round and fer a short toime did a loike Bertram A. Marburgh. service to ourselves ? Well, it wor on that day, and I'll tell yez th' r'asin it happened." The crowd fidgeted itself into comfortable positions, and then became as quiet as on dress parade. You Many stories come to hand of narrow escapes — such could have heard a pin drop. as that of the man who had a bit of his brain shot "As ye'Il remimber, we were movin' forward very away with no evil result save a twitching in the little noicely, givin' th' inimy a delicate shove ever)- now and finger—but this from one of the R.A.M.C. at Frere thin wid th' bay'nits to hurry matthers. Camp certainly deserves the adjective he applies to " I wor lookin' afther me min and obeyin' ordhers it. " I can tell you about a marvellous shot by a Mauser at th' same toime, and I wor just tellin' a young bullet that a chap belonging to the Lancashire Fusiliers recruity what happened to be beside me that matthers got in the foot. The bullet entered near the top of the worn't always so easy, whin I noticed a big bulk of a boot, went through all his toes and came out at the man who seemed as if he might be an officer thryin' to other side of the boot. Not one of the bones of the toes make thim Bo-oers turn 'round again and give us a was smashed. Fact." Copyrighted in the U.S.A. by the cu'hor 2S BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET March 17, 1900 What the capita! of the Orange Free State looked like in 1857 BLOEMFONTEIN Rloemfontein, the metropolis of the Orange Free appearance than it has now. The fort pictured on the State, hardly has the appearance of being- the capital of opposite page still exists, though it has been consider- a prosperous Republic. To go there from Kimberley ably strengthened, and is now embellished with a is to pass from the days of machinery to the pastoral monument in memory of the brave Commandant age. It has the appearance of a pleasant county town. Wepener and other burghers who fell in the Basuto It stands on a plain surrounded by low hills. In its War from 1865-1868. centre is a large market-place into which run the Trees, especially willow and gum trees, are a more principal streets. For all its general appearance, conspicuous feature in view of the town to-day than however, of being a pleasant rural centre, it has hand- they were forty-three years ago, as nearly all private some and substantial public buildings of red brick and houses are surrounded with well-wooded gardens. The the fine-grained white stone which is quarried in the slope to the right of our view is now covered with pretty neighbourhood. The New Raad Zaal is an attractive villa residences. building, surrounded by Doric .columns with a domed There is a good National Museum in the Iktle tower, ninety feet high. It cost over ^57,000, nearly capital, great care having been taken to collect, classify four times as much as the residence of President Steyn, and catalogue all objects which illustrate the geology, which is substantially builtangloboerwar.comof stone. In front of the the flora and the fauna of the Orange Free State. A Old Raad Zaal, which is pleasantly situated in a remarkable feature for an inland Republic is the inte- garden and is now used for government offices, is a resting collection of fossilised fish which the Museum statue of Sir John Brand, who was President of the Free contains. State from 1864-1888. A cricket ground, a racecourse, Such is the town which has some likelihood of now golf-links and swimming bath make the many English becoming the objective of British arms. It is not well residents in the pleasant little capital. Its population suited to stand a siege, and therefore will probably is 8,000, of which about half are white. escape much damage. The key to it is in the neigh- In 1857 the majority of these buildings were not bouring hills, and there a big battle will possibly decide erected, and Bloemfontein had even a more primitive its fate. N'elson'S Koi, on a span of the Drakensburg Mountains between Ladysmuh and Harnsmnh, so-called from the head marked x which bears a likeness to a welt known pioneer March 17 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 29 angloboerwar.comFort at Bloemfontein, 1857 Bushman's River Post, 1848: Now known as Estcourt 3o BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET March 17, 1900 angloboerwar.com m .2 "3 rt March 17, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 3' MIL Bl ^m ''.-'" C ^ : " Little Joe and "Little Bobs": 47 in. guns from H.M.S. " Doris " and H. M.S. " Barossa," landed from angloboerwar.comPort Elizabeth. (Photo by D. Barnett, Our Special Correspondent) " "Joe Chamberlain off to the front : The big gun that was so useful at the Modder. (Drawn from a photo supplied by a British officer) ; ) 32 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET March 17, 190J THE BRITISH VOLUNTEER !•: I B v W. M . L K NU T O N (Dedicated to the Volunteer Service Company, Royal Warwickshire Regimen!) We've sung of oui- Tommy Atkins, we've raved ol our Jolly Jack, back We've told the world that our flay, unfurled, shall ne'er show a coward's ; And we've heard of a volunteerman, his camp and his church parade, And w.s'vje watched him play in a soldier's way, and thought of the tax we paid. drill in Some of 'em drill in red coats, some of 'em green ; Some of 'em clean their buttons and belts, others ain't fit to be seen. All of 'em do it for nothing ; so give 'em a hearty cheer ; It may be play, but he gets no pay, docs the British Volunteeer. There's men from the grocer's counter, there's men from the builder's shop, There's men from the school and the turner's tool, there's men who are called " tiplop." They're taught how to mount a sentry, they're trained how to stick a Boer; And they made a brag that the grand old flag has a duty for them in store. Some of 'em drill in red coats, some of 'em drill in green, All of 'em talk of a duty they ewe to their country and dear old Queen, don't know the of fear They may have a talent for boasting, but meaning ; It's the big,angloboerwar.combold heart that plays the part of the British Volunteer. But there's gloom on the far horizon, there's a strain on the Empires might And Tommy and Jack, standing back to back, can scarce stem the pressing fight. There's a cry for help from the Homeland, the call of a bugle clear, And up with a will, for his place to fill, trots the amateur volunteer. Sonu of 'em drill in red coats, some of drill in green 'em ; It's the chance they say they've been looking for to serve their country and CViecn, To prove to the people who doubted, they're ready both far and near, To do and fight, for the honour bright, of the British Volunteer. There's comfort throughout the nation, there's pledge of the Empire's power; Though Tommy's away, there's the lad o'er the way, who'll guard us in danger's lour, And we've giv'n to the world a lesson, through lads from our own fireside, That British pluck is the only luck that has borne us over the tide. Some of 'em drill in red coats, some of 'em drill in green ; (Khaki suits 'em the best of all when serving their gracious Queen). Give him a hearty send-away, and save him a welcome dear ; He's a soldier true, and a hero too, is the British Volunteer. r A .B.~- Permission to recite the above pozm must be obta'ne.i 'rom the Editor cf Black and \Y,i:rn: BuDCET, j>y\ Fiouverie S'reet, E.C., and envelopes containing' requests lor permission should bear in the l-Jt- hand top comer the word "Recitation.'" (All Musical Rk;iits RESEHYF.r*. Fkinted p.v the Black" and White Publishing Company, Limited, at 33, Bo-tverie Strfet; at so at c.eeds, .Manchester, Gla>gj\V and Eiunjjuroh; and Published Weekly by W, J. P. Munckton. at 63,' Flebt Street, London, E.C., En, land. -JIaiui 17. 1; o.