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HORATIO HERBERT KITCHENER, BARON KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM, G.C.B., K.C.M.G.

LATE SIRDAR OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY

The man who has organised victor) - in the North and the South of the Dark Continent. As Chief of Staff to Lord Roberts, he has aided the Commander-in-Chief in to bring

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VICTORY smiles at last on our forces in South Broadwood worked round on his right and got Africa. The relief of Kim berley and Ladysmith behind the Boer position. The enemy had three and the capture of Cronje have proved the turn- field guns and two quick-firers, which did a little ing point of the war, and now Lord Roberts is damage. He also played more of his dirty engaged in steadily pressing our advantage, and tricks with the white flag, else we might have

we may believe that there will be no relaxation , got some of these. Anyhow we pocketed a Long obtained such of effort till the Boers are surrounded within their ! Tom on the Wednesday, and we troublesome Transvaal. Continuous British ! quantities of forage and provisions that Tommy

! and Tommy's horses had a better feed than they success is the tale to be told this week ; may it

! remembered since Christmas Day. he the tale to be told to the end ! We did not make our way to Driefontein The battle at Osfontein, or Poplar Grove, was

i without casual and irregular fighting, and we the most important, as it was the first of the \ did not get past Aasvogel Kop and up the series which Lord Roberts has fought On his way Kaal Spruit to Bloemfontein without a few j pot-shots. However, the enemy had expected to Bloemfontein. j

It was on a Wednesday that this battle was I us to stick to the Modder, and as a result the fought, and by the end of the day the enemy Orange Free State capital lay at Lord Roberts's j thought they were in the middle of next week. mercy. French, always at the fore, went on

The fighting centred round the Modder River, ! ahead. Before the Boers realised the situation, where the Boers had entrenched themselves on he was outside the railway running from Bloem- I kopjes extending for several miles on both sides fontein to the south. They were still rubbing of the river. They saw Colvile's Division on their eyes when he had seized the station with

J the north of the river and Tucker's and Kelly- the rolling stock, fought his way to two com-

Kenny's on the south ; so they made up their manding kopjes, and had Bloemfontein under minds that the Rooineks were going to walk his thumb, waiting for Lord Roberts to come up. straight on to their barbed wire. But they This sparkling little tale was followed by forgot French, who wasangloboerwar.comstill further south ; and British readers with avidity, and they had almost before they had quite finished breakfast there he begun to get tired of victories when the over- was, swinging round them with guns that hit too tures for peace were published. " Blood and hard and fast for the simple burghers' taste. It tears " was the beginning of the two Presidents'

was almost a bloodless victory for us, and the dispatch ; very poetic, it is true, but a little Boers lost fewer than the experts expected, undiplomatic. A few lines further on, however, simply because the experts did not know how we came upon the old, old Kruger. " This fast a Boer could run. war," said the dispatch of March 5th, " is only The next big fight was at Driefontein, and continued in order to secure and safeguard the here we had a tougher job. Poplar Grove is a incontestable independence of both Republics piece of land that belongs to two loyal Britishers, as sovereign international States [only !] and to Mr. and Mrs. T. Webb, who welcomed Bobs obtain the assurance that those of her Majesty's with all their heart. Driefontein is ten miles subjects who have taken part with us in this war south-west of this. Here the Boers determined shall suffer no harm whatsoever in person or

!] to make another stand. They talked very little property [only ! " Mr. Kruger wants this about Osfontein, so that the reinforcements from " assurance " from us. Judging from this dis- Colesberg did not know the exact situation. patch he has already assurance enough to suffice Kelly-Kenny's Division was the one that hit for a dozen South African Republics. Lord them, for we were walking broad and could have Salisbury is, however, too practised a hand for swallowed three such armies as opposed him. even Messrs; Kruger and Steyn. So, too, is Broadwood with his cavalry was feeling his way Lord Roberts, who has hoisted the British Flag in front, and held the enemy till the infantry over Bloemfontein and taken over the Govern- came up. The 1st Welsh and the 1st Essex ment offices. So far, very good. He was wel- then had an afternoon of fairly hot fighting, and, comed heartily by the inhabitants, who were much to their joy, got in with the bayonet while thoroughly sick of the war.

portraits this follows: The in Budget are by as — Lord Kitchener, Duke of Connaught, Colonel Dorrien, Bassano ; Duchess of Connaught, Mendelssohn; Mr. Alderman Newton, Lieut. -Colonel Hamilton, Major Carthew Youstoun, Major Maxwell, Major Ross,

Elliott and Fry; Mr. Alderman Treloar, Wright; Mr. Alderman Bevan, Vandyk ; Alderman Pile, Mrs. Pile, DArcy ; Lieut.

General Rundle, Captain Scott, Gregory; Captain Lamhton, Symons ; Lieut. -Colonel Lord Cranborne, Newman ; Colonel Crofton,

Heath; Captain Pachman, Barnett ; Lieutenant Lamb, Ball ; Colonel Hickson, Lieutenant Vaughan, Knight ; Second-Lieut. Long, Crcoke. The pictures are by Our Special Correspondents, A. Nicholls, Middlebrook, Russell and Sons t Lawrence, Dublin, &c. BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET March 24, 1900 NOTICES

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NOTES O' WAR

We would call especial attention to the letter on Terrible and Powerful, the former of which at once page 31, in which Mr. Wyatt advances a plea for an sailed for . To Captain Scott, of the Terrible, Army League, to carry out for the Army what the belongs the credit of saving Ladysmith. He landed his Navy League originally proposed to do for the Navy. guns, and by a contrivance of his own mounted them So many of our readers have relatives and friends in on wheels. They were then expeditiously sent to the Army that we are sure this letter will interest them Ladysmith, and only arrived the day before it was sur- greatly. We shall be glad to receive rounded ! comments, limited to words from 150 Some really terrible mistakes have each correspondent. been made by our troops, particularly Reports keep arriving that British on the eastern frontier with Buller. Th officers have escaped from Pretoria, but latest instance was just before the en- owing to the distance to be covered in trance into Ladysmith, when the 2nd the flight they are nearly all re-cap- West Yorkshire, arriving at the top of a tured. Elaborate were the schemes for hill, were not only fired on by the Boers, escape hatched by the prisoners during but also by our own artillery with shrap- the American Civil War. On one occa- nel and lyddite ! The West Yorks imme- sion, after weeks of labour, a large diately got against the sky-line, and number of Confederates escaped by placing their helmets on their rifles making a long tunnel from their prison waved them energetically. Fortunately, under a street and into a friend's house. our gunners saw their mistake. On other occasions the weeks of anxiety To the enemy all is fair in the present and work were thrown the ac- away by war. In the advance near Dordrecht cidental discovery of the operations. It angloboerwar.comrecently one of the British was taken has just been discovered that Colonel prisoner in an attack on the Boer breast- Schiel, the captured German officer, was works. When our guns shelled their engaged in a tunnelling scheme to position the enemy to cover their retreat escape. compelled the prisoner to hold up the When the announcement came that white flag. A shell, however, burst Lord Roberts had only captured six guns among the Boers, scattering them, and with General Cronje, there was a general the prisoner seized the opportunity to idea that the wily Boer had buried most escape under a terrific fire. This is but of his cannon. It is probable that the one of their many dastardly tricks. graves will have all been examined, but The blowing up of bridges by the so far nothing has been found at Paarde- Boers, in their retreat, recalls an ex- berg. At Pieter's Hill, however, one ceptionally interesting story of Welling- of the "pom-poms" found buried. was ton. Before the Battle of Orthez, in the It will perhaps be recalled that, after the Peninsular War, the armies were facing British had retreated from Dundee, the each other across a river. The French Boers announced the finding of a num- had passed over the only bridge and ber of rifles in a dummy grave ! were about to destroy it, when the Duke Cronje is being treated with con- wrote to Marshal Soult suggesting that, siderable more favour than Napoleon as the bridge was very valuable to the was. Admiral Harris gave up his surrounding people, it should not be quarters on H.M.S. Doris to the Boer destroyed. He promised that if Soult Lieut. -General Sir H. M. L. Rundle, General, while Napoleon, on board the Commanding the Eighth Division would preserve it, he, on his part, would Northumberland, which conveyed him to not allow the British Army to cross St. Helena, had to be content with a cabin 9 ft. it in the course of the ensuing battle. This the wide and 12 ft. long. As the ex-Emperor, further- French General agreed to, and next da}', under a terrific more, seemed to imagine that the after-cabin was fire, the British forded the river higher up. for his exclusive use, he informed was through a com- The great Boer stampede from Colenso, and from panion that it was for all the officers. The Government before Lord Roberts, came as a surprise after their instructed that he was to be styled "General" and stubborn defence previously. The method that French receive the same honours as a British General not in has of threatening their rear is evidently giving the employ. And now, Cronje has gone to St. Helena. enemy nervous fits. A panic-stricken army is as bad as There is something mysterious about the abrupt a defeated one. Such was the panic after Waterloo, for withdrawal of the which was in Lady- example, that many of the soldiers arrived in Paris as smith. Numbering more than two hundred, they soon as Napoleon. They had ridden behind carriages arrived at Durban and boarded their own ships, the and in carts, reporting everywhere that all was lest. March 24, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 5

One of Cronje's prisoners has declared that the During the the Boers secured Guards' storming of Belmont was magnificent. In our possession of the Natal coal mines, near Elandslaagte, opinion, not half enough has been said of the exploit. with the result that the price of coal in the colony went

The men dashed up a mighty kopje, and so astonished up to the startling price of jQj a ton ! The losing of were the Boers that they stopped firing. Then they the coal mines (now re-captured, though with the gave a veil, poured in volleys from their Mausers and workings damaged) also had another result not Martinis, and, as the Guards came grimly on, turned generally known. Two years ago patriotic Natal

and fled. Then, what a cheer ! Grenadiers shook commenced to give, absolutely free, 12,000 tons of coal hands with Grenadiers, and the whole sang " Soldiers a year to her Majesty's Navy, so the re-taking of the of the Queen." The 3rd Grenadiers lost 21 officers and coal mines is of much importance. men killed, 106 wounded and 2 missing during the engagement. The Boers must be something like the Chinese when England fought the latter in 1842. The British troops The regimental dog of a corps of Engineers was left had taken a fort by a rear attack, and in a dispatch (o at Cape Town when the advance was made on Kim- headquarters, the Chinese commander said, " The igno- berlev. This arrangement entirely disagreed with rant barbarians not knowing that guns could not be "Charlie," the dog in question, and he took the first fired at them, came upon us in the rear, and thus opportunity of joining rendered all our cannon his pals, who were at useless." The Boers the Modder River camp making elaborate pre- (623 miles from Cape parations for a frontal Town), when " Char- attack, find General He " came in with an French coming up be- attempted nonchalant hind, and thus they air. It is supposed that have to leave on hur- he came up with some ried business to the troops, and then found his way to his own company. The 2nd Private Webb, parents Shropshire Light In- writing to his fantry, with Lord at Marriott, tells of the Roberts, have secured wholesale destruction of a Boer family. He an ostrich, presented — by a friendly farmer, as says : " Among the prisoners is a boy of a pet, and it insists on age. going to the front with fourteen years of r the regiment. Fie told us tha his father and six brothers The great event, after had been fighting, and the relief ot Ladysmith, that four of them and was the grand march angloboerwar.com his father were killed Sir Redvers past of at Colenso. Another Buller's before Sir men brotherwas killed later White. Sir George on, and the little George stood in front of prisoner was him- what remained of the self wounded. Poor Town Hall, and the first little chap, he is the regiment to pass was only one alive out of the depleted but re- seven ! It is very hard doubtable 1 st Dublin " to see him ! Fusiliers, who, as a tribute to their valour, The surrender of were unanimously General Cronje, on the given the lead. Hur- anniversary of Majuba roo ! As each battalion Hill, disposes at least went past the pipers of of an annoyance which Capt. the Hon. H. Lambton, H.M.S. the 2nd Gordon High- Capt. , H.M.S. "Terrible," the British residents in " "Powerful,' C.B. for services at C.B. for services and designing the new landers played High- Ladysmith gun carriage the Transvaal have had land Laddie " in honour to put up with. Each of the only Scottish regiment, "The Wearing of the anniversary was made a general holiday by the Trans- Green " for Ould Oireland's sons, and " Cock of the vaal Government, and though English firms did not " North for the Lancashire and other English regi- recognise it, Dutch firms employing British hands did, ments. The 2nd Royal Fusiliers stopped before Sir and consequently much ill-feeling was aroused. George White and " Hurrayed " him three times, and February 27th will in future be known as Cronje's every following regiment did likewise. Day. By Order !

Lord Roberts's proclamation, offering the Queen's The antidote to the stupefying fumes of the lyddite pardon to those of the rebels who return quietly to their is, according to a Boer prisoner, a spoonful of vinegar. farms, is said to be having a good effect. Doubt on The Bible Society is sending out through Miss Edith the point may have caused the rebels to fight to the Rhodes a large supply of Bibles for use among the bitter end. It is rather curious to find, however, that wounded Boers. The mixed character of the Boer during the American War of Independence, Lord Corn- forces may be guessed from the fact that, besides being wallis issued proclamations inviting the inhabitants to in English, Gaelic and Dutch, the Scriptures supplied return to their duty and assuring such of protection and have also to be in German, Flemish, French, Swedish, kind treatment. Unlike Roberts, Cornwallis had only Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, a small army, and the proclamations only resulted in Bulgarian, Croat, Magyar, Roumanian and Czech. the disaster at Yorktown. Truly a vast international library ! ! —

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Cheering serves a very useful purpose both in peace laaglc. It was, of course, the Imperial Light Horse and war. When the Boers on Umbulwane Moun- which so distinguished itself under the late Colonel tain heard the prolonged cheering of the Ladysmith Scott-Chisholme. As a matter of fact the first body of garrison on the arrival of the relieving force, they South African Light Horse — about 500 strong—was tumbled over each other in their eagerness to escape. raised in Cape Town after Elandslaagte, and was not General Wolfe, who fell on the heights of Abraham, dispatched to Natal till after General Buller's arrival in recommended a loud, warlike shout to be given on that colony. They have since shown their gallantry charging the enemy with fixed bayonets. Sir James at Spion Kop and elsewhere. " Ware said that the ancient Irish war-cry was Farrah ! " It may make a splendid picture, but it is a terrible " ! the Irish prefer the farrah but nowadays simple thing to see." In these '' words does one of Mont- " Hooray ! morency's scouts sum up his impression of a battlefield.

Lord Kitchener is a man of resource, and just the Here is an interesting picture of hard work at the on: for repairing the damage done by the Boers in their telegraph. It occurs in a letter of Sapper Poole, R.E. " retreat. During the last Soudan campaign, he wished He says : I have been on the Rensburg wire for the to have the Atbara bridge built at once, but learned last four hours taking messages. The work is very that no firm could supply it for some weeks. This was heavy. One message I received by sound was 3,000 not quick enough for Kitchener, and returning to Cairo words. There is a general store and one pub, which he found an old iron bridge in process of dismantling closes at eight p.m., and natives not indoors after half- on the Egyptian railway. This he at once annexed past eight are arrested. Prince Francis of Teck and for use across the Atbara while the new bridge was the Earl of Erroll are here every morning dispatching constructing" telegrams. The former is a handsome man of ['ma

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A correspondent suggests the advisability of a physique, and we have found it necessary to apologise table explaining the letters which appear so confusing to both gentlemen owing to the rickety chairs frequently after the names of distinguished officers. We append breaking down under the continual strain of the military as full a list as possible, giving the letters in alpha- heavy-weights. His Royal Highness does not take a betical order ; seat now and regards us with some suspicion, I fear. A.D.C., AiJe-de-Camp G.C.S.I., Knight Grand Com- The grub is all right, not forgetting the boiled beef and A.G., Adjutant-General mander Star of broth occasionally, which we call ' Jipper.' Extras are A.Q.M.G., Assistant Quarter- G.C.V.O., Knight Grand Cross but the prices are too high master General Victorian Order to be obtained for payment, C.V.O., Commander of the Royal G. M.B., Great Mater of the for Tommy, who has received no pay since leaving Victorian Order Bath Aldershot. The officers and men are roughing it D.A.G., Deputy Ad'utant Gene- G.M.M.G., Grand Master of St. ral Michael and St. George alike." D.S.O., Companion of the Dis- G.M.S.I., Grand Master of the tinguished Service Order Star of India Tins is how an Irishman saved himself from capture G.C.B., Knight Grand 'Cross of K.C.V.O., Knight Commander of at the hands of some tender-hearted Boers. The inci- the Bath the Royal Victorian Order — dent is described by a private in the Royal Fusiliers : G.C.I.E., Grand Commander of M.y.O., Member of the Royal the Indian Empire Victorian Order " The other day, 'after a fight, a corporal of the Dublin G.C.M.G, Knight Grand Crors V.C., Victoria Cross Fusiliers with nine men were out reconnoitring when a St. Michael and St. George party of Boers came along. The corporal lay down, It may be generally taken for granted that an addi- and when the enemy got up to him he was groaning as tional means Assistant, and different orders "A" the ' if in terrible pain. They went to him, saying, Poor are occasionally described in more or less letters. Their devil !' Soon after some of our ambulance men put meaning, however, can be readily found by reference to him on a stretcher. When he had got a safe distance the above table. the Fusilier suddenly jumped off the stretcher and sur- In Vol. II., No. 14, of Black and White Budget (a cor- prised the bearers by saying, ' Be jabers, that was a respondent points out), we refer to the South African narrow squeak, eh?' The nine were captured and taken Light Horse as having been in the battle of Elands- prisoners." . —

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A private iii the King's Own Yorkshire Light the table would not naturally rank with those at the Infantry, who writes from the Modder River, has had a bottom on the other. However, the end of the table : ling spell of active service. " It is nearly five months may perhaps be simplified, and no one's susceptib Jities " if it follows : since we left our barracks at Wynberg,"he says ; and hurt, we amend as I think that is long enough for anyone to be on this Second Lieutenant Midshipman, Chief Gunner, &c Warrant Officer Warrant Officer job. When I get home I think I shall sleep at least Sergeants and Corporals .. . Petty Officers six weeks to make up for lost time. This is four years Privates Able Seamen running I have been on active service — not one year's Lieut. -Colonel Cosby, who has been associated rest, always under canvas. Tell Charlie that I am with the 48th Highlanders ever since their formation going to "pitch a tent in the garden with strong ten years ago, has two sons in the Canadian Contin- entrenchments, and wire entanglements all round. I gent at the front, Lieutenant Lome Cosby and Lieu- have fairly forgotten what it is like to be at home." tenant Narna Cosby. Both of them have been officers in 48th Highlanders, the former, when he Here is a story of a—brave drummer-boy told by one the but of the Coldstreams : " As the Highlanders were became a Captain last year, resigned to take up a post advancing the second time at Magersfontein, a captain in the North-West Mounted Police, and has gone to the stopped and gave a wounded Boer a drink. He had front with the Canadian Mounted Rifles. The latter,

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Canadians at the front. I.ieut.-Co'ionel Cosby and his two sons in the uniform of the 4Sth Highlanders got about a dozen yards away when the Boer raised to get to the front, has had to enlist, and has become a himself up, loaded his rifle, and actually had it up to gunner in C Battery. Both are fine soldiers — worthy the present, when a drummer-boy, quite a kid, who sons of a gallant father. had been forbidden by the captain from advancing with Major Bar'-hER, R.A.M.C., commanding the 2nd the company and who had come quite on his own, saw Corps Field Hospital, appeared in a recent issue of this the Boer. He kicked him in the head and then drew paper as Major Barber. We apologise for the misprint. his dirk and ran him through the neck, and when they got to the couple this up the boy had burly Boer pinned The humours of transport driving in South Africa to the ground. Plucky little beggar, wasn't he? Old are well described in the following extract from a letter England hasn't got much to fear when she turns out by Sergeant Medland Newsham, of the Durban Light like boys this." Infantry: — "All the oxen have their names and their The inclusion of Quartermaster in our list of ranks places in the span. If they get out of their place they in No. 22 of the Budget has drawn a not unjust remon- will not pull. If by any chance a strange one gels trance from one who has been connected with the Army among a span the natives ' spot' him at once and soon for over thirty years. He rightly points out tha't whack him out of it. In a Dutch span there is always Quartermaster is the title of an appointment, not of a one called 'Englishman.' He is generally the worst rank ; at the same time we must point out that we of the lot and gets all the beating. In a Kaffir span I made the class in which we placed the Quartermaster find ' Scotchman 'gets it all. An English driver lias a an inclusive one, and those at the head on one side of ' Dutchman,' of course, who gets ' beans.'" " —

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Major H. E. Maxwell, 2nd Black Lieut.-Col. J. McD onnell, R.F. Artil- Major A. J. J. Ross, 2nd R. Lanes.— Watch—Wounded, Paardeberg lery — Wound., Kl ip Kraal, Feb. 16 Killed, Spion Kop, Jan. 24th

Bridgnorth, in Shropshire, has done well. With a Newcastle, as well as Belfast, has the honour of population of only 5,900, this little town contributed sending three companies of Imperial Yeomanry to the ninety men to the army at the front Clitheroe has not war. Two have already arrived in South Africa, and done so badly, with ninety-seven men out of 10,800. the third is on the way. " " I had a very happy Christmas on a kopje just out- I think it is better to be born lucky than rich," side Arundel," wrote an Inniskilling Dragoon from writes a philosophic trooper with Bethune's Mounted " Colesberg, "and we had a couple of biscuits and a Infantry, or else I should have got a Mauser bullet " drink of water for our Christmas dinner. We had a before now ! miserable night and arrived back in camp at 9 a.m. There are some men who are determined to go to Boxing morning, after a thirty-two hours' picket. If the front somehow or other. With the 4th Battalion 1 live to come home I shall never forget that Christmas Royal Lancaster Regiment, when it sailed for the Cape, and the first four days in the year 1900." But, poor went two under-age soldiers as stowaways. With the fellow, he did not live. He was killed three days after 3rd Battalion three went. And in the draft of 220 men writing the letter. who sailed recently no fewer than thirteen stowaways

were found ! Instances still continue to reach us of "record" Flies seem to be even more troublesome the families at the front. Two cases this week are worthy than Boers at the front. A private of the Royal Fusiliers of note. The first is the case of Lieut.-Colonel E. H. — writes from Chieveley Camp : " The flies and mos- Llewellyn, M.P. , who recentlyangloboerwar.comreceived order to sail quitoes are simply awful. If kill flies with the 4th Somerset Militia. Colonel Llewellyn has you a few thousands of their pals come to their funeral. I think already two sons in South Africa— one, Captain Noel the mosquitoes must have been served out with spurs Llewellyn, is in charge of the' advance armoured train by the Boers the way they serve us. running on the British Bechuanaland Railway ; his portrait appeared in these columns a little time ago. Here is a remarkable series of escapes described by Another son, Mr. Llewellyn Llewellyn, is an officer in Private W. Ollenhead, of the South Lancashire —Regi- the British South African Police. A third, Captain ment. It was at the battle of Spion Kop: "A

Arthur Llewellyn, goes with his father ; and the drummer of ours (his name is Lawrence) was drinking youngest, who is in the 2nd Somerset Militia, sails on the soup out of his Maconochie's rations — it is a tin of the 20th. Another remarkable case is that of Mr. John meat and vegetables —when two shots went through it. Westley, of Lee Green, who has six sons going to the He picked a rifle off one of the wounded to guard him- front with the Middlesex Yeomanry. A sister, who is self, and that got knocked out of his hand ; he picked in training in Glasgow as a nurse, has also volunteered another up with a bayonet fixed, and the bayonet for the war. got smashed."

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HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO LONDON

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For three days of (lie week ending March lolh the on the Lord Mayor and knighthoods on the two good people of London ran riot in a display of heartfelt Sheriffs. This is an honour bestowed not merely on loyalty to their beloved Sovereign. Her Most Gracious individuals, but is an honour to the City as a whole, Majesty has never had a happier inspiration (save, and an honour which its martial patriotism has well perhaps, that which is taking her next week to Ireland) deserved. The new baronet, 'Citizen and Fanmaker" than that which prompted Alfred J. Newton, is con- her to visit the capital of nected with several very her Empire just on the turn- well - known commercial ing point of the war in enterprises, -f which the South Africa, when success names of Harrod's Stores was beginning to crown the and Messrs. D. H. Evans efforts of her gallant troops. and Co. are most familiar. Every day the principal He has also an extensive streets of this huge metro- knowledge of shipping. He polis were crowded with and his colleagues have been cheery and patriotic crowds, conspicuous for hard _ work who were willing to stand in connection with the any amount of jostling and C.I.V. Sheriff Treloar is discomfort if only they could one of the most respected obtain a glimpse of their of City magnates, great of Queen. Her Majesty was heart and generous of purse ; visibly touched by this warm and Sheriff Bevan is well display of her people's affec- known as a director of tion, and in the crowd many Messrs. Barclay, Perkins a tear bedewed the cheeks and Co., and for good work of those who saw the stately in connection with St. little figure in the quiet dress Saviour's, South wark. as it bowed its acknow- ledgments. "God save

• the Queen ! God save the A SPRic.iiTLY bit of danc Queen!" The National An- music called ''Sunrise them rang out everywhere Valse " is on sale at Mr. with no mere perfunctory Douglas Robb's, 14, Castle feeling. Never was prayer Street, Dover. It is by Lucien more heartfelt or mere sin- Travers, and the proceeds cere. angloboerwar.comhave been promised to a con- The visit to the City on valescent home at Dover, or

Thursday was followed by Mr. Alderma Alfred J. Newton, Lord Mayor of London, failing that to the 1st Devon- the bestowal of a baronetcy whom tj Queen has honoured with a Baronetcy shire Rea-iment.

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HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO IRELAND

Earl Cadogari, Lord-Lieutenant of Irel Countess Cadogan, the Queen of the Vice-Regal Court

" Her Majesty the will rejoice at this compli Queen is pleased to order ment to the gallantry of the that in future, upon St. brave sons of Erin through- Patrick's Day, all ranks in out the terrible campaign her Majesty's Irish regi- in Natal, from the battle o ments shall wear, as a dis- Colenso to the hard-wor tinction, a sprig" of sham- fight of Pieter's Hill. The".; rock in their head-dress, to record has been magnifi- commemorate the gallantry cent : their pluck immense. of her Irish soldiers during We shall all wear the green the recent battles in South angloboerwar.comthis St. Patrick's Dav it Africa." honour of these gallant lad> These words of a General and brave " Bobs," our Order, issued by Lord Wol- Irish Commander-in-Chief. seley on March 7th, will But her Most Graciou.-. probab'y give more general Majesty's honours arc satisfaction throughout Ire- bestowed with no sparine land than anything which hand. This privilege o has happened during wearing the green is not al. Rijht Hon. Thomas Pile and Mrs. Pile, Lord Mayor and 1 ndy the century. No one but Mayor is of Dublia, that Ireland is to gain.

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AN ARMY LEAGUE WITH A DEFINITE ;o Parliament, the Treasury to have no cognisance of OBJECT. this memorandum, or of any of the proposals contained in it, prior to presentation." Sir, —There are probably many who will hold the The result 01 this proposal, it it were adopted, would opinion that if the recent victories, wrenched by British be to transfer the decision on points of supreme import- valour out of the very jaws of defeat, should banish the ance to the continuance of the British dominion from desire to investigate and to remedy the causes of our Treasury clerks and other mysterious individuals who previous disasters, then the latter' state of the British cannot afterwards be named when they are wanted to people is likely to be worse than the former. No man, Parliament and to the nation, which last would at save the few peace-at-any-price fanatics, is now so length have a chance of doing itself justice. The blind as not to see that with the closing year of the League is now in process of formation, and much nineteenth century we are passing into a new epoch, in valuable promise of support has been already received. which the predominance won for us by our fighting Sir Charles Dilke, if I may instance a name, although forefathers at Trafalgar and Waterloo is fated soon to he considers that his parliamentary ties preclude him be fiercelv challenged, unless the naval and military from formally joining the organisation, yet authorises strength of the empire be such as will render the me to say that it has his full sympathy and support. assault of our enemies a doubtful and desperate task. If any of your readers feel impelled to aid a movement The peace of the world, wrote Lord Beaconsfield in which has a sc-ientific object and a definite aim, I should the famous manifesto issued on the eve of the dissolu- be most glad if they would be good enough to com- tion in 1880, depends on the presence, not to say the municate with me, as acting Hon. Secretary for the ascendency, of England in the Councils of Europe. If time being. I am, &c. the European Chancelleries know that either navy or H. F. Wvatt. armv is inadequate to maintain that ascendency, it 1, Great College Street, Westminster. must surely vanish, along with the peace of mankind, in the flame of conflicts in which Britain will contend at disadvantage with her jealous foes. FILE. Now :f there be one face which has been more widely THE BOYS OF THE RANK AND last four recognised than any other during the months, 1. it is that the Imperial Government has paid insufficient When you're talking of the Empire, and the men attention to the voice of its professional advisers, and has apparently, in very many respects, organised the who've made its fame, British Army with a view to the exigencies, not of war, When your martial hearts are thrilling as you cheer but of peace. Thus, to take only one glaring instance, each hero's name, extraordinary admission of the Under- we have the When you're saying "Well done, leader, you deserve the Secretary of State for War that he was unable to discover Nation's thanks," by whose recommendation the number of batteries of little those in horse artillery was reduced in 1887. Plainly, this Don't forget the debt of praise you owe

declaration by itself demonstrates the haphazard manr.er the ranks ! in which military changes of the most vital moment can Refrain : be introduced, and also the totalangloboerwar.comlack of assurance to the British public that these changes may not be terrible They are the boys to whom mistakes. Under the present system there is no one Some of the thanks are due, human being who can be so much as named, much less Ready to dare, rendered responsible, in regard to an alteration now Devil may care, universally admitted to have been a frightful error.* Steady and straight and true ! The obvious remedy is to make someone really respon- sible for such matters in future, that is to say to have Each is a pillar of the State

someone whose name and reputation are attached to the Guarding our Empire Isle : proposals made. Such a man would naturally have to They are the boys who keep us great, be the most competent to be found in the Empire at a Boys of the Rank and F.le ! given time, and he would be therefore, equally natu- rally, the Commander-in-Chief. 11. The whole teaching of Mr. Spenser Wilkinson, in you're boasting of this sortie, or that piucky books now of world-wide renown, point, it should be When noted, towards this measure as the sole remedy for night attack, our present admitted ills. Mr. Wilkinson founded the And you pat the gallant men who led them on upon the Navy League with the single aim of getting a like back, change effected- in respect of the Navy, but the Navy- When you read your daily paper and aloud your pride League, although it has done and is doing much work declare, of priceless value, has yet recoiled from raising this forget the that the rank single great issue, because it has feared the opposition Don't men behind them — and

of officialism and of one or two great newspapers. file were there ! The whole atmosphere of opinion, however, at the {RcfiaJn.) present moment shows that the psychological hour has. in. arrived at which it would be possible to do what was When you're lauding this one's strategy, or that one's perhaps impossible before, and what a Navy League master brain, did not at once perform, that an Army League might this if now achieve. I have therefore ventured to suggest the Or other's plan of action you can praise not — formation 'of a League with an object thus defined : explain " To ensure that a memorandum stating the needs of Give a thought to humbler heroes— you'll forget them, the army in the view of the military adviser (not in a while 'advisers ') of the Crown should be presented annually And remember Britain's backbone is the gallant ran! * The fact that Mr. Wyndham has subsequently announced that he lias and file ! '-- in discovering the pe-son or persons responsible, but that his or {Refrain.) cannot Le rr.ade public, is scarcely of a nature to reassure the Clifton Bingham. — —

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TOMMY'S ANSWER TO FOREIGN CRITICS By WALTER RAGGE

You say we've made a mess of it, you say as 'ow we It's 'ard for any general to save. us from surprise,

ought When 'alf the 'ills ain't mentioned in his map ;

" To 'ide our 'aughty 'eads in bitter shame." When the guide wot leads the column is a Boer in

But if you foreign parties knew the country where disguise, we fought, As wants to run us straight into a trap. You wouldn't be so ready with your blame. 'E's got to fight a lot of beasts wot doesn't play the

To be lookin' for a ford which is flooded when you game,

find it, But 'oists white flags an' shoots us — but 'e mustn't do To have to climb a rock with a thousand Boers the same ;

behind it, 'E's got to fight 'em fairly, and 'e's got to take the

To ge.t a bullet through you and pretend you didn't blame,

mind it, And that's the sort o' work 'e 'as to do.

Well, that's the sort o' work we 'ad to do. Chorus. Chorus. Yes, that's the sort o' work 'e 'as to do, Yes, that's the sort o' work we 'ad to do, 'e's you Our general, just as good as ; And we drd it as I needn't tell to you ; If 'e's met with a reverse, Did you think we funked or faltered ? Why, you'd 'ave got it worse, Why, we ain't so bloom in' altered And never pulled the blessed business through. From the chaps as angloboerwar.com'eld the field at Waterloo.

You said as we were done for, 'cos they shut us up You thought as we was beaten, so per'aps you'll at first— take it bad "Ten thousand men in Ladysmith and more in That we're finishin' our tidy little jobs. Kimber-lee ; We 'aven't got no generals? Just wait a bit, my " " An' more again in Mafeking — but 'oo 'as 'ad the lad, worst Did you ever 'ear of Kitchener and Bobs ? Of the little game they're playin' with B.-P. ? You'll find that French can march a bit, we'll follow To be sittin' in the mud with the burstin' shells about, where 'e led, To be drinkin' drinks of water wot looks like bottled With Fightin' Mac and one or two as ain't exactly dead, stout, And we'll catch old Kruger safe and sound afore 'e's To 'ave to stick to it for months though food was out of bed, runnin' out And that's the sort o' work we mean to do. Well, that's the sort o' work we 'ad to do.

Chorus. Chorus. to do Yes, that's the sort o' work we 'ad to do, Yes, that's the sort o' work we mean ; if you think we're not as good as you, And we've done it, yes, we've done it proper, too ! And Though they shelled us day and night, You come and 'ave a try, die We 'ave 'eld 'em off all right And—just before you told true. With the 'elp of certain gentlemen in blue. You'll own as 'ow I've really you

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