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LIEUT.-GEXERAL SIR HENRY MACLEOD LESLIE RUNDLE, K.C.i:;., C.iSI.G., D.S.O. Commanding the Eighth Division, is the same age as " Archie " Hunter— forty-four—and, like Buller, a Devon man, for he was born at Newton Abbot on January 6th, 1856, coming of a naval family on both sides. This is not his first experience of warfare in South Africa, for he served in the Zulu War of 1879-80, and the Transvaal War of 1880-81, being wounded in the latter. Like Kitchener lie went to Woolwich, and on passing out joined the Royal Artillery in 1876. His services include the Nile Expedition of 1884, the battle of Sarras 18S6, the command of artillery at the battle of Toski, in the Eastern Soudan, and at the battle of Tokar in i8qi. He was Chief of .Staff in tiie Dongola Expedition of i8q6 and Soudan campaign of iSq7-qS. He has been mentioned in dispatches in all his campaigns, and has been the recipient of numerous medals, clasps and orders. He is an Egyptian Pasha, and was Adjutant-General of the Khedive's .-\rm\- from 18^)2 to 1898, when lie was appointed to the command of the South-Eastcrn District i62 BLACK AND WHUE BUDGET May 12, 1900

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' The war must be a great mj-stery to most of the I for ihe Ro_\al West Surre3s ! It is probably not known natives in South Africa, tliough they won't have much | that niany Boers, including' President Kruii^er, have it is suprer.iacy. their coffins all in difficulty in guessinsf that a fight for | readiness. In iScjy,Ahe Cape Times', At Maseru recently, the Basutos gathered irom its Pretoria correspondent, reported on the hills in thousands to watch the fray that a local undertaker had imported a of the white men. When Waterloo was coflin for the use of the President, 7vhcn being fought hundreds of the peoph' of It is a gorgeous receptacle, and Brussels watch- cost not far ed with much short of ;£. ICO ! concern, for if the British had The dilfer- been beaten it ence between would have the costs of the meant the loot- little British ing of the Bel- .Army and the gian town. immense Ger- There is no man force has doubt but that o ft en St r u c k iKitive sympathy people as being is wholly on the \ery peculiar. British side. For example, it takes the sum It was re- of ;!£rjo,ooo,ooo ported the other angloboerwar.com to maintain day that Gen. 180,000 British Pole-Carew's soldiers, while division bivou- foe the 500,000' acked for the that Germany night on the has on service, broad expanse the cost is only of open veld ^"30 ,000,000. rfcar Ij%<"uw The rate of pa_\'

\- Kop. To biv- u lul o uhte d 1 ouac, of course, accounts lor a means to en- deal, a British camp without In Alcniury of Hcr Talilet placed l.y 1I12 R L^L.r^e Ri)c;erson in Siockport Church in soldier receiving tents, and, on riemory of Commander Egerton, \\'ho died of wounds recei\-ed while serving with the Naval a shilling per Urigade No\'eml)er 2nd, It is the Vicar's handiworl<, some of liie in defence of'Ladysmith, on 1890. day while a many occa- parishioners bubscrihing Jcr the marble. The arms on the top are those of the Karls of Ellesnitre sions, without and the Cavendish arms German soldier fire ; and it is onlv gets 4 'jd., at these limes, as the cold penetrates to his marrow, but it is evident tliat a leakage exists somcw h<'re. that Tommy thinks of the glorious life of a soldier. When will the War Office be reformed ? Far away in the distance can be seen the outposts and Gooden's cave is famous. It would seem that ll.e sentries, on whom the sleeping camp places its entire example of the dead hero is followed by ;it least one trust. Each regiment has to provide a picket. li\ing general. -Serving under General Brabazon is ;;

• Four Victoria Crosses have been bestowed for the pri\ate of the loth Hussars, who describes his leader's gallant attempts to save the guns at Colenso, and now coolness under fire as follows : "In the heat of th.c- another has been given. The hero is Surgeon-Major bombardment General Brabazon was strolling up and William Babtie, who, under a hea\y rifle firej during" down beside the guns with his walking-stick in his which his pony was hit three times, rode up to attend to hand, just as coolly as if in Piccadilly, while slulls the wounded, and afterwards exposed himself by assist- i were dropping all around him in dozens, ting to bring in Lieutenant Roberts, who was lying! Heke is an extract from some of Toubert's writings : wounded on the veld. Surgeon-Major Babtie becomes I .. ;^ maxim is the exact and noble expression of an im- the thirteenth medical the holders ot hvmg man among ! po.-tant and unquestionable truth. Good maxims are (he \'ictoria Cross. first the list, as regards The on the germs of all excellence. When firmly impressed on date, is .Assistant-Surgeon H. T. S) Ivestcr, who won ] the mehiory they nourish 'he will." It should perhaps the honour in during on the 1855, the attack Redan. be mentioned that this Joubert is not the deceased Boer A.vio.VG the loot captured when the enemy suddenly leader, but a Frenchman who died in iSj4. Ihe retreated tVom L;id\siT>ith was a wagon-load of coflins, maxims which the victor of Majuba Hill was mosllv which was at once knocked into IJn wood to cook lood Interested in were llu)'-e fiiat lire 5CX) shuts ( tr minute! -

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are iiistructue she been to Here two j whom had unable obtain repHes to letters, instances of the way inven- Lord Roberts immediately tele'^Taphed to Duller inquir- tors are encouraf;;'ed by our inj^ after the health of the two Somersets, and by the next own War Office and by the mail Mrs. Lewis received a reply stating that the men i'.utb.oillies in France. (1) in question were well and serving with their units. " t A colonel of Engineers lately The two soldiers were officially informed that " Bobs invented an impro\ed motor, had asked for a report on their health, and they wrote ind tiifi French War Minister home, in considerable excitement, mentioning the

promptly h.mded him over the circunistance and wondering what it nie.mt ! ;um of ;£j8,ooo for experi- menting- upon its adaptability LAXCE-Coi^poRAr. R. Macdoui;ai.i., who is now in to the traction of military the active service company of the ist Volunteer Batta- (,onvo}s. By the application lion of the Queen's Own Canieron Highlanders at the (if a stilf spiral coupling it is front, met with a remarkable adventure before joining

( laimed that as many as this company to go to South Africa. On February 25th thirty wagons can be hauled Mr. .Macdougall, who was then working at the Obser- by the motor and yet kept vatory on the summit of Ben Nevis, went down to exactly in its wake, however Fort-William for the purpose of signiiig on with the

Lieut. -Col. A. Aytoun, command- winding the road may be, Volunteers. Having arranged everything, he started ing the Queenslanders, who form whilst any wagon can easily on his return journey on the 27th, leaving Fort-William part of the Imperial llushman's be detached from the train ! at two o'clock. He was followed by a collie dog. All Contingent at the Front (2) When Sir Evelyn Wood went well until the)- came to what is known as the "Pialf-

WIS a captain in tiie I /111 Lancers Way House"or" Hut, "situated half-way he devised an improved cavalry up the mountain side, when the climbing saddle, and dispatched it to llie War became very dangerous, owing to the Department for inspection. A polite upper part being entirely covered with acknowleds^'ment was at once forth' snow, having an icy surface. Walking coming, but there the matter ended. \ery cautiously, he struck off the road, ^'ears passed, and the thing- was for- and commenced walking straight up the gotten, but when Sir Evelyn Wood side of the niomitain, on the track known was appointed Quartermaster-General as the "Red Burn." Following this of the Forces, nearly twenty vcars after, with extreme difficulty, they were itear- he quite by accident unearthed h."' ing the summit, when Mr. Macdougall sample, which still remained unopened. iioticed two of the observers coming to It would seem to be a case of " No niect him, but they, on seeing hini so genius need apply'" near his destination, turned, and walked back to the Observatory. Mr. I\Li'--- Mr. Rl'dvari) Kiplint, is always doug;ill then tried to mike up on tlu>m, observing something interest- when he accidentally lost his fool- angloboerwar.coming, and, of being- ing that escapes the ordinary course, was soon man. Here is an example :- whirled at an alarn-iing pace down " You must remember," he the snow slide — sometimes heal sa3'S " that a wounded man is tlrst, at others the reverse, fol- not a sick man. He is general!}' lowed in quick succession by somersaults and circular niox'c- in superb ph}sical condition ; he has been off all liquors for some Major Wlilte, Staff Officer at Tort Eliz.abeth, wa'ching ments. The dog now displayed (Pholo I'y I). BariKtt, Our months, and so responds readilv operations on the jetty. remarkable sagacity, for as Special Correspondent) soon as he saw his comnanlon to stimulants ; his blood is clean, and he breathes the best of air. G ive liuTi half sliding he seized his coat chanc?, and Irj will clamber up again haiid over list." with liis teeth, and held on tenaciously, thereby help- ing in no small degree to Accord:.n- ; to a regulation recently issued, all men check the downward im- belonging tj tlie medical service of tha German Army petus : but on they went, i-nust learn to ride a bicycle sufficieiitly well to use it sometin-ies tossed over a either on the march or in cantoiiments. For a con- rock into the air, next head siderable time past several commanding officers of regi- foremost through passages ments in the P'rench Army have allowed niedical of ice and snow, until at students servii-ig as assistants to n-iedical officers to use last, when tearing at a ter- bicvcles on the n-i;irch and in attendance at mancKuvres. litic rate down the gull\-, a rise in the ground ofl'cred OwiNt; to the poor displ.i\-s of the Boers during the the only chance of escape. sieges of Ladysniith ai-id Kin-ibcrlcy, artillery is beii-ig Mr. Macdougall, not slow spoken of widi great contempt. Sir William AL'icCormac to seize the opportunity, considers, for instance, that this war has confirmed the with some dexterous move- ineffectiveness of artillery fire to destroy life. Frequent to steer for j ments managed cases h.'ive occurred, however, ii-i which odd Boer shells the bank of ground, up have done an in-m-iense amount of damage. At Lady- which he and his faithful smith last December, a 6-inch shell fell into the can-ip companion were brought to of the 1st Glouccsters, and killed eight and wounded a standstill after a miracu-

nine of the men ! lous escape, having covered on their downward slide a A.v interesting story, showing Lord Roberts's close distance of over 2,000 feet. told. temper- This equals the best of the attention to details, has been recently A MacDoiigall, " " I,ance-Corp. Robert ance ladv, Mrs. Lewis, of Blackburn, wrote to Bobs famous Spectator dog ist Volunteer Battalion Queen's termini- for information regarding two soldiers from stories. Own Cameron H'ghlander» May 12, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 165

Fergt.-Maior A. J. Pnget, killeU 'JiooDtr W. A. Jones, 2nd Life Trooper Farmer, of the Nat.il Private David Mills, killed at at Mafelking, Dec. 261! Ouardb, killed at Poplar Gio\l, Carbineers, recommended for tli * Modder River, Nov.28tli, inbuUie , 1899 1899 March 7th V.C. for gallantry at Coleiiso

Trooper Farmer, of the Wccncn troop of the Natal of Wellington drawing his sword in action after he left Carbineers, who displayed s^rcat j^-allantry at tlie Battle hidia. Seidlitz, at Kossbach, launched his horsemen at of Cclenso, is one of many Colonials now serving- at the the foe by tossing his tobacco pipe in the air ; while front who have well-earned the glorious '" thrcepenn'orth Murat—the Rupert of Napoleon's cavalry---at J^na, o' bronze." Ten men were shot by the first volley of the where " the pillar of Rosbach was overthrown," led enemy, and as soon as their situation was discovered the final charge with a jewelled riding-stick. At El the Carbineers took cover in a donj^a. While there Teb, Captain Wilson, R.N., found the hilt of his broken Trooper Farmer noticed the absence of his officer, Lieu- sword a most efficient knuckleduster, practically win- tenant Mackay, and ventured throuj^h a perfect hail of ning his V.C. with it, and at Waterloo an artilleryman cross-fire to his assistance. He found him shotthroup^h actually captured a mounted cuirassier, armed with tlic cheeks, but he was too heavy to lift, so f.e drapfged nothing but his rammer. him slowly along into the donga, a distance of about Major William Babtie, of the Army Medical Corpr, lifty yards. The brave trooper safely reached cover uho won the Victoria Cross for succouring Lieutenarit with his comrade, and but for his heroic act there is Roberts and other wounded men at Colcnso, has in little doubt that Lieutenant Mackay would have been times past had more than his share of the slights and killed in the fusillade of bullets. Trooper Farmer, we injuries incidental to his profession. When he was may add, is a son of Mr. Charles Farmer, formerly ot surgeon-captain and was attending a review at Phcenix Barton Seagrave and Yardley-Hastings. The gallant Park he drew his sword like the rest of the officers, but young fellow is onlv nineteen years of age, and went to Vi'as brusquely ordered by the general In command to South Africa with his parents nine years ago. sheathe It immediately. He was not a combatant Infan'trv officers at theangloboerwar.comfront no longer use their officer, and must not usurp that personage's privileges. sv/oras in action, as they afford too good marks for the That general is now a lield-marshal, and when the war Doer sharpshooters. This is not altogether a new is over it is likely that he will attend a review of the practice among soldiers, for some of our most famous returned troops, including ^Lljor Babtie. If the major leaders and many regimental officers seldom or never unsheathes his sword, will the field-marshal rebuke him drew their swords in action at all. The charge of the again ?

2 1 St Lancers at Omdurman is fresh in everyone's A part of the duties of generals at the front, which memory. The leader v»'as Colonel R. H. Martin, who is occasionally alluded to by correspondents, is the visit- led his khaki squadrons into the donga with nothing ing of the sick in the hospitals. Lord Roberts, among more formidable than a hunting-crop. The finest others, often goes round speaking a few cheering words swordsman in the regiment was killed, while the to the inmates. When Napoleon was in Egypt his Colonel came out unscathed. General Gordon headed army was attacked by the plague, and both soldiers storming-parties armed Vvlth a little cane, which the and officers became so disheartened that the Emperor men of his " Ever Victorious Army" called his " magic found it necessary to reanimate them by frequent visits wand," and venerated as a charm. Nelson, though to the hospitals. This was risky work, and, indeed, glittering with stars and orders, was unarmed at Napoleon liimself caught the disease, but soon shook It

Trafalgar, and there is no v.'cll-authentlcated instance . off.

Private Alexander McKay, Lance-Corporal J. R. Mo7ley, Private James Dickson, reserve Pri\-ate Richard Cowland, reserve man of the 2nd Seaforth 3rd King's Royal Rirtes, killed man King's Own Scottish Bor- R.A.M.C, died ot" enteric at Highlanders, killed at Maserj- tpion ICcp, January 24th derers, killed in action at K.aree Pietermaritiburg, March 26th funtei.i Siding, March 29th so.ME OF th:; couxtrvs sekvaxts —

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So many of ii-- had friends or ndalKes who went Hk«e also is a 6'2 lb. fr.igment of the loS-poundor thiOLiyh llic -sict;c of Kinibci-lcy thriL relics of tiie Boer which killed Labram, the man who made l.ong- Cixi'. honibardnicnl arc of particular intoro-t just now. The Two hundred and ninety-two of these were fired durii ^ iirsl to biiiii^' any to this countrv is M,'. Marsceko, an the siege. The fragment in question belonged to a Italian, w',10 went throu<^'h the tr_\in^ sieg'e, whose lOO-pounder Boer shrapnel, which lif'tcd a 200 lb. kerb-

uiiiiiuc and instructi\c collection is now on exhibition stone in front of Dr. Fuller's house and placed it on at 21 J, Strand, W.C. lie has with him a boy named Dc the double-storey roof. Dr. Fuller lias now got the Lacev- such a queer lad, with the strangest, hauntingf stone as an ornament in his passage. A similar frag- eves vou ever saw, and a habit of squattinij like a KalTir. ment killed Mrs. Solomon and her baby, just as they Here are blue tickets for horse meat (4 oz. every (wo were leaving a bomb-proof shelter in the belief that the (!a\s) and a white ticket issued by Dr. Ortlepp to the firing had ceased for the day. Another shell is that boy in order that he might t;et half a bottle of milk which killed the first victim of the siege, a Kaflir ilaiK lor his two little sisters. The lad worked on the woman. Then there is the 108-pounder which fell in roads for Mr. Rhodes. For this labour a single man Marsceko's yard, "entered three walls, went throu,i;h

was given 2s. 6d. a day and a married man 5s. ; but the two foundations, and made a hole large enough to l)ov used to get 4s., because he had to keep his mother bury six people. " Another shrapnel, fired bv Frencli's and two sisters. Mr. Marsceko was a cafe keeper in force at Alexandci'sfontcin, " hit a wagon wheel, killed

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JNIakin,^ clotliiii'; fur Toniiny at ilie woiking iiy front ; part of tlie room in whicn large parile-, organised h\ Miss Harrison and atiendcd upwards of a couple of hundred ladies, are held weekly at Wanstead. Hundreds of sliirts, ctiolera-bclts, socks, cardigans and the like, lKi\e liere 10 knoiv leen sent out from to our wounded soldiers ; and it is plcasiiig that all classes have co-operated in tlie good work

Kimberley until Colonel Kekewich commandeered a!l seventeen Boers, and wounded thirty-seven." Many his pro\ isions. Then he fell to lying in trenches with a other things Mr. Marsceko will tell you, not the least r'lfie and collecting relics at odd limes. The collection interesting among them being his description of Colonel includes many grim souvenirs of ihe siege, and all who Kekewich and Mr. Rhodes and the things they did want to know what shells— whether Boer or British during the siege. can do, should hasten to see it. You will find some

Mauser cartridges which ha\c been dipped into poison I r cannot be denied that a great general must, to buckets by our brother Boers, and are the colour of succeed, always maintain it a cool and clear head ; and \ ;'rdigris ; and you can get an excellent idea of how it is remarkable to note the number of commanders that c xnes about that the enemy can lire more rapidly from temperance has claimed, and still claims. Both Lord l!ieir rilles than our men. The collection is remarkably Roberts and Lord VV'oIseley sport the blue ribbon complete, including as it does what Tommy fondly calls their among many decorations ; while it is said that " " tcn-a-pennicj (pom-pom shells), lyddite, cordite, and Napoleon Bonaparte was only drunk once in his : r.i jkeless powder, the last-named looking ver\- like life. Wellington not only avoided strong drinks, but litt!-.- sh.avings of dark wood, to say nothing of Boer also severely condemned smoking, and on one occasion

1 eks, v.atchcs, and money. The coins bear counterfeit he practically prohibited his oflicers from indulging in prcsi'iUnunts of Oum Paul's honoured head. the weed. I\Iav 12, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGIiT 1-7

AccoROiXG to a medical journal, the average Boer weekof April, told rrliic- Christian that tli'' wai- w.iiM

is a staunch friend of the patent medicine dealers. He be concluded in three nioiilhs -that i.-> to say, by ihc imagines liimself to be afflicted with all sorts of dan- eiid of July. Lastly, a returned German from the gerous diseases, and forthwith commences to take pills Transvaal considers that tiic war ma\- last three or loui'

and syrup in startling quantities. This kind of thing, years more ! however, should prepare the burghers for the day when One of the mysteries ol the campaign i> the strange, the British ilag will be hoisted in Pretoria—an event, movements of Lord Kitchener, who was appoint'-d no doubt, which will be a bitter pill to swallow ! It is Lord Roberts's Chief of the Staff. As such, Kitchenf-r's guaranteed to cure the Kruger fever, besides many duty is to be always with tlie Commander-in-Chief, minor ailments. collecting and submitting reports and superintending-

British soldiers are not allowed to loot, but it appears the details of any operations against the enemy. that they can earn money by driving into camp any Instead of which he is sent to y,appr.ess rebel*; in Cape cattle or sheep found on the %eld. A small fee is given Colony, and perform many other things tiiat a Chief of by the Supply Department for each animal brought in, the Staff is not supposed to do. There -'re, it may be and the captures come in very useful for feeding" the added, whispers of a disagreement between the two army. The men of the 8th Liverpool Regiment ofi peers. Mounted Infantry, who earned ^£^^132 in that manner, The notorious Chicago Ambulance Corps has now \ have sent it to the Soldiers' Widows and Orphans' Fund appeared in its true colours. All the members of the

ill England. Tommy, \-our heart's as tender as it is company have joined the fighting ranks of the Boers,

brave ! and the doctor in charge has returned to Lcuren-^o

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Ii is not ofien that gooJ water can be got to drinli in Soiuli Afiica, but «lie;i it cm bolli man ani b. r,c thoroughly quench their thirst. Here we have seme artillery horses gjin..; lo drink in the Or.inge River. (From a photograph by D. Earnett, Our Special Correal ondcut willi Lieut. -Ger.cral Gatacre's column in the Free State)

M.AXV of llie enemy, wiien cornered, crv out that thev Marques in disgust. To show, liowever, that Americ.in are F^nglishmen, under tlie mistaken impression that sympathy is not entirely with the enemy, it is pleasant they will have their lives spared. But it is just the to record that thirty Americans, who went to the Cape ether way about, for the soldiers b.nyonet such traitors in charge 01 mules, have joined the Cape Mounted --ito.ice. A Jewish soldier has written home telling how Rifles— a corps which has much distinguished itsclt I e came face to face with a Jew among the enemy. during the campaign. He naturally hesitated a moment, but, remembering his It may be taken for granted that the Boers will place " dut}-, he hit the poor chap," who fell and said some- many mines in the way of the British army, and extra- thing in Hebrew, and then expired. Many of these ordinary precautions will have to be taken to avoid men, unfortunalelv, are made lo fight ayainst tiieir disaster. A single mine, well placed, will annihilate a will. whole regiment. When the British captured tiibrallar, Lord Woi.sMi.EYis said to still stick to his declaration in 1704, the Spaniards sprung a mine which killed two tiiat Pretoria will be taken by the end of Mav. Lord lieutenants and forty men, and wounded sixt\- ethers. Roberts himself is not so sanguine, but he thinks, in a There is evidence that the enemy have laid many such letter to a friend, that the campaign may be over bv the 'raps on the route to Pretori.i. Keep your weather eye middle of June. Sir (ieorge White, during the list '."tin"', I>ob-> !

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' The war-stped used by Mr. J. An<:rus Hamilton, Our 1 said, I've been ridini^ liard outside for hours, and Special Correspondent with Colonel Baden-Fowell in appreciate the luxury and blessing j of a slow walk to Mafeking-, was borrowed one Sunday morning- by a col- finish up.' But all ilie people 1 passed seemed to j know league for a ride over to the native stadt and outpost | the horse, and grinned ! 1 wish I had known him as kopje, I a couple of miles cut of town. "When mounted | well before I took him out. I gave him a farewell dig him," writes the rueful journalist, "he had a short nap, with the spurs before 1 dismounted in the hotel yard, and then he worked up and he had life enough steam and got his en- left to work up a look of gines going dead slow, extreme malice before he equal to about a knot went asleep outside the per hour, according to stable door. He was still the patent log, which, asleep when four negroes like all patent things, lifted him in." Truly, never lies. 1 thought at D'Artagnan's famous the outset that he was charger is not in it. one of those horses that begin the day's work I\Iks. Hector Mac- slowly, and then warm DONALD and her son had up, and refuse to be held a most enthusiastic recep- in; but I was mistaken. tion at some cycling and He kept up that walk all athletic sports at Bedford the time, and occasion- lately, and General ally went to sleep and Macdcnald's name v.as refused to wake up imtil received with trenier.- hs was ready. Then he dous cheering, which was would root up a tuft of redoubled when Master grass and munch it, and Macdonald was intio- when I gave him ll e duced by Lieutenant- spur he only threw his Colonel Josselyn as "the hind legs into the air 'Fighting Mac' of the and tried to get rid of future." me. It is an annoying thing when your horse It is only fair that the takes charge of you; but Boers should be gi\en your chagrin is doubled their due. Sir William A young Lociiin\ar who did not pass the riding Icsl — tco gcoJ a niai k and trebled when knots for the Boer Sharpshooteis MacCormac, the well- of negroes on their way known surgeon, who has to church turn round and snigger at you, and young just returned from the front, where he has attended white gamins advise you to 'Get off his neck,' 'Get hundreds ot wounded, states that he has seen no inside him,' or 'Get angloboerwar.comlook up at yourself;' down and wounds caused by Dum-Duni bullets, which the or, again, when they ask you if you have forgotten burghers were declared to be using. It is to be feared the ? key that you wind him up with ' At last I had to that the enemy have been much slandered in this respect. dismount and tow the animal by the bridle, and help Most of the older Boers are using Martini rifles, the him up the rises, and when I approached town on mv bullets of which make a bigger wound that those frcni return I again mounted, and rode in at the same old a Mauser. The latter is not liked by the burghers, less-than-funeral pace, trying to assume a look that owing to accidents occurring in the use of it.

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A BIT of Boer romance is reported from Barkly East. bringing home the body of her When that town was in the hands of the Free Staters husband, the late Sir William they appointed a magistrate and clerks of their own. Penn Symons, the Subsequently the town was reoccupied by a British firot General who

Veil miglu think it was quite impossible to repair Nerval's Poit Bridge after the Boers hnd made such a wreck of it. But the Railway Piorieer Regiment with (ieneral Clements's column knew that w; were anxious to be able to get easily over the Oranga E.i\er, and at once set to work with a will. HTe we see them heginnin? the troubleso ne task. (Photo by D. Barnett, Our Special Correspondent in the Free State) fcr:e, and Zylstra, the Free State fell in the war in South magistrate, and some of his clerks, Africa, for re-burial in were sent to Aliwal North,angloboerwar.comunder Cornwall, a county with escort, as first-class prisoners of war. whicli the deceased was Two of the latter were engaged to closely connected. The local Dutch ladies, and evidently ex- re-interment will take? pected to have made a longer stay in place in the burial- Barkly East. Truly, "the course of {jround attached to true love never did," &c. Botusfleminj; Lady Penn Symons, who has b^en Church, where staving for some time in the West of '"M'Jf'^ a memorial has Englandj has made arrangements for * been erected.

When the Boers find any position becoming too hot for them they usu illy beat a hasty retrca', wrecking culverts and bridges on their way. To repair this is hard work for our sappers. Here we have sections of bridges being landed at I'ort Elizabeth, to be sent to the front BOERS AN'D BRITISH IN SOUTH AFRICA I70 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET May 12, iQco

Mr. W. B. Knox, a youn^ Irisli press- than a good-sized dog, I made my entry man, formerly on the staff of the Johannes- into Bloemfontein. And how the people hwv^Slar, did a plucky and characteristic laughed. My feet were within a few deed at the battle of Modder River. It inches of the ground, the saddle was rained bullets, and a man's only chance about as old as Abraham, the stirrup of safety was to lie prone on the ground. leathers were fastened with bits of cow- One unfortunate Coldstream had his leg hide, and a piece of string sufficed for blown off, and, hastening to the stretcher- the reins and curb-chain. Altogether bearers, Mr. Knox besought their aid in I presented a most ludicrous spectacle ; taking the wounded Tommy to the ambu- but 1 don't care, the little begga.>- lance. They hesitated. " We shall be all has got to carry me to Pretoria." That killed if we attempt the is the spirit in which rescue," was the answer. Britons go forth to Knox gallantly volun- victory. teered to take the lead if GeneralLouis Botha, tlie others would follov;', the Transvaal Command- and, encouraged by bis ant-General, is said to be example, the party made married to a lady of Irish a dash for the Cold- family named Emmet. stream Guard, whom Mrs. Botha is said to be they brought (o place a related to Thomas Addis of comparative safety. Emmet, the United Irish " My horse went dead leader in 1798, and lame after leaving Mod- Robert Emmet, his der River," writes a brother, who was con- mounted private from victed and executed for Bloemfontein, "and until high treason in Dublin we arrived within seven in 1803. A brother of miles of the Free State the Emmets, who was capital I had to do the in the British Army, ' frog's march.' Near the became a magistrate town I managed to catch at Cape Town, where a Boer pojiy, and on this Forage for Gtneral French's cliargers at liloemfontein (Photo by he died early in the D. Barnelt, Our Special Correspondent) animal, scarcely bigger century. angloboerwar.com

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It would be hard to £;et three bettor contrasted types Two pri\ates of the Lancashire Fusiliers who were of the men who are leading the Boers than those which in the front rank in the charge at Spion Kop were wc publish on this page. Louis Botha, the late Piet chums. One of them was shot through the log, and Toubert's successor as Commandant-General of the could have limped out of action, but refused to leave Boer forces, is one of the youngest of the commandants, his chum. " Ged away, Bob, bcfoor tha gets hit and has latel\' been opposing General Buller in Natal ageean," said one. "Nod I," replied the wounded is " a task for which he pLsticularly well fitted, having soldier ; aw'm nod leeavin' thee, Jem." Hardly wore been born in the British Colon)', and being familiar the words out of his mouth ere he fell with a bullet with its hills and mountain fastnesses from his earliest through his brain, and Jem had received a wound in youth. He is perhaps the most daring of all the Boer the siiouldcr. Such is the stuff from which heroes are commandants, and certainly one of the most original in fashioned.

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(From a lioer photograpli lal^en in Natal) his methods of fighting. General Lucas Meyer is one The documents found at Dordrecht, Cape Colony, of the best-known of the Boer vccht-generah in this after the enemy evacuated it, included a letter from country, though, strange to say, it is reported from Johannesburg signed W. J. and M. J. van Straatcn, and more than one source that he has developed a great addressed "To our parents and all the rest of the fondness for the protection afforded by ambulance family." The writers seemed to be much concerned at wagons during engagements in the course of this the absence of coffee in the commando, and promised to campaign. He certainly looks a man who has a con- try and send some down. In the meantime they advised siderable opinion of his portly figure, and knows how to as follows: "Why should ma be without coffee? take care of his skin. The third member of the group Knock open Dekmair's store and help yourself This is General Erasmus -is typical ashamed to — a example of the Boers war time. Take clothes, too ; they will be we fought in '81. His father was the famous Daniel put you in gaol ; and drink to the defeat of the enemy, Jacobus Erasmus, Acting - President of the .South for they won't stop until we have given them a thrash- African Republic in 1871. ing." Wc wonder how Dekmair's store fared. May 12, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET ^7S

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Boer Telegraphists at Tea : This interesting photograph was taken during the siege of ihc Diamond City at the intermediate pumping station of the Kimberley Waterworks, which was taken possession of by the enemy 17G—May 12, igoo—BLACK AND

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THE AMERICAN BURNHAM'S BID FOR FREEDOM : SCOUT'S FIRST ATTEMPT Whe Colonel Broadwood's ""^ convoy was captured near Bloemfontein, P"J!l famous American scout, was talien prisoner. He escaped, however, ana nding through and JJ™' the midst of the Boers lining the spruit, rushed ?' "; warn the convoy. He was, however, recaptured, and \yas afterwards taken olT ilj'," with the rest of thei"c nightnigui- rna^' "'-" away •••, ^'='^ "' prisoners. In the course ofot thetne ;" .,„ "e "la under a wagon, and at the nrstfirst opporiunuyopportunity rolledroiieu intt.!,rrlluvsaras a slight tr^t^^^^^^^':^^.^.[v. depression in the ground. There he lay motionless for '"(„ '.'""''=; and when (he convoy had passed on he made his escape and reached ' jjloemlo""^'" in safely •' ^ ly'o BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET May 12, 1900

The life led b_v our prisoners of war at Capetown i.s \ei'y coinfortable and leibLU'ely. They lune plenty to smoke and as much liberty as can reasonably be expected, while their quarters are both spacious and healthy. Here you have a typical batch of Boers who ha\e recently fallen into our hands, andangloboerwar.comwho express themselves as being- pleased to be out of the fighting

Lating and sleeping are the main occupations of their life — and they pursue both mc:-t conscientiously. This photograph shows a group of prisoners fetching their tea. They are very well conducted men for the most part, and get on very well with their g-aolers. (Photos by Horace W. Nicholls) rfiisoNF.r^s OF war at Capetown May 12, I90D BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 179

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We have to place a certain number of sentries to guard our Boer prisoners, and these men discharge their somewhat monotonous duties in the most praiseworthy fashion, in spite of the fact that they would far sooner be with Roberts at the front. In short, we adiiere to the humane maxim laid down in "The Customs of War," that "the object of detainin

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TiFERE has been some considerable discussion as to TnEREarc, asis well known, manyso-called Kngli^^hmcri t! e birthplace of Li?ut.-General Sir (ieorge White, V.C., helpingthe Boers, and, from a recent publication, entiliej and we are pleased to be able to settle the vexed ques- The Early Married Life of Maria fosepha Lady Stanley li;n. The ijallant defender of Ladysmith was born at it appears that such traitors existed one hundred years

Rock Castle, Portstewart, County Londonderry, Ire- ago. In one of the letters. Lady Stanley wrote : "A just in (Newcastle) land, on July 6th, 1835 ; not the Rock House as we had 50-gun ship has brought a French he^n led to belie/e. Mr. Thomas Mackay, a wine I'rigate which had long infested the coast. I am sorry merchant of Coleraine, who furnishes us with (he to say, out of thirty men which composed the crew of interestinsf photoi^rapii which we reproduce on pa

O'Hara. I saw in some paper that they gave Rock with ants, flies, lizards, and ostriches ! We have to House as his birthplace, which is a mistake. — Yours pick the ants out of all our food, but we enjoy it all the truly, F. A. White." same."

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" King Kruger does not mean to let his prisoners of war slip through his fingers if he can help it. This is an "outside view of some ot our soldiers in their prison at Waterval, near Pretoria. Let us hope that some English firms have supplied this barbed wire, for there ought to be profit in contracting for such a quantity (From a Boer photograph)

The last draft of the Cameron Highlanders which It is of the utmost importance that the military sailed for the front to join the ist Battalion was a hun- authorities should know something about the right class dred strong. This famous regiment is popularly of horse required for cavalry work in South Africa. Mr. known as Kitchener's " Favourites " on account of its W. H. Higginson, who is connected with the largest conspicuous services at the battle of Atbara when it stud farm in South Africa — that of the Natal Stud (Com- lost a great number of officers. The Camerons are the pany—makes some sensible remarks on this subject. only purely Highland Scottish regiinent in the army. After calculating that the losses from all causes will be Many of the men indeed only speak Gaelic. A singular 35 per cent., he says that English horses (corn-fed and circumstance about the last draft to sail is the fact stabled) have proved their utter uselessr.c ;s for hard veld that fifty-nine of them are twelve years' service men. ! work. South Americans are put forward, and have There is not, indeed, a man under thirty in the draft. been bought in large quantities on account of their Over fifty of them wear four medals apiece. Jn the cheapness. The pampas grass of South America, how- regiment, which will now be brought up to 1,200 ever, is entirely different to the veld grass of South strong, over 700 possess four medals each — truly a won- Africa, and the South American horses will feci the " der.''ul record. A subaltern went out who is probabl)' i climatic changes even more seriouslj' than the Eng- the youngest officer in her Majesty's army. Second- landers." The horse to save the situation, in Mr. Lieutenant Patton-Bethune is onlv eighteen, and h.e Higginson's opinion, is the Australian, if properly stands 6 ft. i in. in his stockinged feet. He is also ' selected by competent men who understand the class c" a splendid shot, like his father, ^lajo^ Patton-Bethune. horse to substitute for the Cape pony. ' '

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Thib interesting group represents five French officers who are helping the Boers as volunteers in one of the enemy's camps in Northern Natal. (From Boer photographs)

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The Boer ambulance train at Modderspruit : This is perhaps the best appointed train our encmies have. The accommodation is ample without being- luxurious, and (he cars are constructed to run remarkably smoothly—a fact which the wounded appreciate to the utmost. The whiteangloboerwar.comcar was recently made in Pretoria, and is splendidly fitted up

The remains of VVashbank railway brids^e, which was blown up by the Boers after their retreat frjm Ladysmith in March. Our Eng-ineers have since been busy making; g^ood the damage. (From Boer photographs) WITH THE BOERS IN NATAL — |

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From limo to time wo have aflbrded o-.ir roadcrs aiid Gatacre's reverses, papers were filled w.ith glowing' t;Iimpsfs of llic nianiUT in wliicli the present war in accounts of Bo'cr victories, the English were pictured as SDiith Ahica is regarded b}' tlie Continental nations. defeated, running away and thoroughly disheartened. Such sidelij;lits are at once instructive and sii^'nilicant. Every telegram of Boer successes was magnified ten- Wo have pleasure, tlicrelore, in publishing' the following' fold. Indeed, we never heard through the press of any interesting letter, which Mr. \i. Claude Peters, one of British success until Lord Roberts's capture of Cronje. our readers in Russia, has kindly sent us : This was put off for a long time as a trap, and when the Hotel' ^letropole, Mockba. tiuth was known very little was said, but sarcastic Wc. ha\e iiow the great white " Zar " in Mockba. remarks as to the numbers of the forces were made. The populace said he came to dechire war on England, Then they have been full of raving and scurrilous but, as iii.s proclamation states, he came here to spend attacks on England, particularly 011 Chamberlain, Easter in the holiest- palace -in -R-ussla, the " Kremle." Rhodes and their conlr'eics. The latter, they declare, I take this opportunity of sending you my impressions are leading' England to destruction. Articles are also of Russian opinion of the war in South Africa and the appearing in papers referring' to the weakness of the cause of same. During mv liavels in Germany and Army. They say that no doubt in a future war the Russia I found one absolutely united opinion that this Na\'y will be found to be the same. The report is still is a most conteniptible and unjust war. In the fornier being circulated that Lord Roberts is hemmed in at country 1 unfortunately did not have tinie to study the Bloemfontein and cannot get out. cause of their violent anti-English opinion', but during But it is in the music-halls, circuses, &c., that \ qu the months of my stay in Russia I hr.v3 h:'.d golden liave the anti-English feeling at its height— \\'hether in

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born on July 6th, iR;;, i ow the pi-operty of Thomas Rlackey, Ksq. opportunities througli mv coniiiig in contact with all sketches, spectacles, or songs. On the top of this, Mr. classes. I was invited to supper by sorne niilitary Stead's speeches and writings are given as represenling j

I i gentlemen, and tell you this to show that we met a large section of British public opinion ; so you cannot under good fellowship, for the Rtissian is \'er}' hos- wonder that the great mass of people are prejudiced ] pitable. We soon got on to the subject of the war, and against the British (ioverrimeiit. they considered it most remarkable that two insignili- I have mixed largel}' with tf.e educated better cl.as-; cant Republics should not only defv the niighty^Empire Russiatis of the commercial community, and I find they of Great Britain, but also force her to strain everv i-.erve ! are all most hospitable and kind to Englishmen ; but as to subdue them. Then the}' criticised our (lenerals \ soon as tlie war topic starts they show their strong- and the Intelligence Depaitmeiit \-ery severel}' indeed, prejudice. I have come to the conclusion that the great

j especially the latter. The lrans[)3rt service they admitted e.mi-English feeliiig is to a large extent artificial in

j was good; but they mainlairied that I'higland, being the Russia and mereh' caused through the press, which is first sea Power with a world-wide distributed Empii-e, the backed up by anti-English Jingoes. It is at present connections should be perfect. The\' praised tlie action suggesting the boycott of Elnglish goods. In this if the Colonies in voluiitai-ih' sending troops, but did endea\our thev will not succeed, however, as the iiot thiiik the conliiigen:s would be equal to well-trained Russian at hcail has not only a respect for the English and dlscipliiied bodies of nieii. 1 have fourid the above abo\'e other nationalities, but there exi; ts a real to he the general opjiiion held arnong.st militar\' men. brotherly lo\'e for the "Anglichan." So you niay As to the causes of the war, thev were entirelv preju- imagine that we English in Ritssia pray for a speedy diced bv the press. 1 will gixe xtiu a rough outline of conclu-.ion of this war, so that we may go on enlarg'ing i:s tone. At the time of Generals Bullerls, Methuen's our nation's commerce with other couiitries in peace. IMav 12, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 18;

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Lady Georgiana Curzon is a sister of Lady Sarah Wilson, who has been shut up with Colonel Baden-Powell's gal- lant little force in Mafeking. Lady Georgiana, it will be remembered, recently raised the Imperial Yeomanry Hos- pital, being the only person who has yet sent out a com- plete base hospital with five hundred and twenty beds, a complete field hospital with a The Kail of Verulain, born hundred beds, and a complete ]\Iay iilh, 1852 bearer company. Her lady- ship is an aunt of the present Duke of Marlborough, Lord Clyde (Sir Colin Campbell) 'J'lie Earl of CadDE'an (Viceroy of and married Viscount Curzon, M.P., eldest son of the ihe hero of the Indian Mutiny, Ireland), born at Uurliaiii, May third Earl of Howe, In 1883. which broke oul May lolh, 1867 i2ih, 1840 The Earl of Verulam is the third of that name, Lord Clyde (Sir Colin Campbell) may b3 regarded as having succeeded his father in the title five years ago.

I he hero of the Indian Mutiny, which broke out on He served In the ist Life Guards for eight years, and, .May loth three-and-forty years ago. This remarkable as Viscount Grimstone, sat in St. Stephen's as Con- man was born in Glasgow on OctJ- servative member for Mid-Hertfordshire ber 20th, 1792, his father being a car- from 1885 to 1892. He is a large landed

penter named Macliver ; but young proprietor, owning some eleven thousand

Colin assumed the name of Campbell icres ; and has been twice married, his from his mother's brother, Colonel John second wife being Hermlone, daughter of Campbell, who in 1802 put him to school the twelfth Duke of Somerset. at Gosport. Six years later he was The foremost of English living com- gazetted an ensign, and at one-and-twenty posers. Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, liad fought his way to a captaincy. The Bart., was born in London on May 13th, remainder of his life-story is too well 1842, and during the eight-and-fifty years known to need repetition. He started at which have since passed has contributed, a day's notice to take command of the in collaboration with Mr. W. S. Gilbert, forces in India on the outbreak of the as much to the edification and gaiety of Mutiny, and died at Chathamangloboerwar.comon August the nations as any man In his generation. 14th, 1863. Even to-day, after having amassed a con- Many happy returns to the Earl of siderable fortune as the result of his Cadogan, who celebrates his sixtieth Innumerable musical compositions, he is birthday to-day (Saturday). His Excel- as indefatigable in his labours as when, lency is one of the most popular Viceroys as a young man, he was striving for ever sent to Ireland. He succeeded his fame at the Royal Academy of Music or father in 1873, in which year he was M.P. tiie Conservatorlum at Leipzig. Though for Bath. A couple of years later he was his compositions include cantatas, orches-

Parliamentary Secretary for War ; and tral works, songs and church music, it is from 1878-80 he was Under-Secretary for as the composer of the famous series of the Colonies, while from 1886-92 he was Gilbert and Sullivan operas that he will

Lord Privy Seal. His Countess is a Mr. J. M. Barrie, born at Kir- continue to be best known by the vast daughter of the second Earl of Craven. riemuir ("Thrums"), May gth, majority. iS£o It has been given to few men to achieve No living woman has \\on a warmer entire fame In letters at so early an age as it came to Mr. J. M. place in the affections of an nation than Florence Barrie, who was born in Kirriemuir— the " Thrums " of Nightingale, the organiser of nursing in the Crimean his books— forty years ago on May 9th, and has been one War. She was born In Florence on May 15th, 1820, of our foremost novelists for the past ten years. He and Is thus about to complete her eightieth year. was educated at Dumfries Academy and took his M.A. degree at Edinburgh University, afterwards going to Nottingham, where he worked for a while on a news- paoer, and acquired the habit of working quickly, as all journalists do. He soon found out what he was born to do, however, and began writing those charming Atild Licht Idylls which at once captivated the public. His books and plays are too well known to need separate men- lion here. Suffice it that in his latest novel, Tommy and Grizel, which will he making its appearance in book form later in the year, he has done Lady Georgiana Curzon, born that raiest of all things Sir Arthur Sullivan, Uart., bora Miss Florence Nightingale, May 14th, i86o born written a successful sepuel. in London, May 13th, 1842 at Florence, May i5ih, 1820 May i::, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 1 89

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Warwicks charging a kopje near Colesberg : This famous regiment has done splendid service since it was landed in South Africa, its work always being distinguished by coolness and pluck. This photograph shows a company of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment charging a kopje with fixed bayonets. As a rule Mr. Boer does not wait for our men to reach the summit before making strategic movements to the rear. It he has a horror of one thing more than anolher it is cold steel (Stereoscopic photograph by Underwood and Underwood. Copy- right — 1900 ; '

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"as dead as a doornail is now getting better, and I think he will recover. Wo We had oftfii heard that a Boer resembled a mule in could hear the 94 lb. shells coming a long distance obsfinacv, but we never realised that their appearance away. " was so similar that one could be mistaken for the other. P.S. — Do send me some cigs. ; I am jusL dying for Yet this is what a private in the Army Service Corps a smoke. Not having a smoke troubles me more than did. He—thus describes the incident in writing to some all." friends : "You would have laughed if you had been here the night I did first guard. It was on the battle- AN' ADVENTL'RE IN' THE VELI^ field at Moddcr, and it was very dark. I could see Trooper Sidney Board, of the ist Royal Dragoons,

,somethiny moving about in front of my post, and I with Lord Roberts, writes as follows under date

: — thought it was a Boer. I ciept up as close is I dare. February i6tii " I had a bit of an adventure out here and then challenged the other niiiht. The B three times — that is the Squadron went out on K. C-iter (aged 19), H.M.S Geo. Cater (aged j6), H.M.S. rule — and getting no " Cambridge," Devonport " Impregnable," Devonport picket at four o'clock in answer 1 took aim and the morning, and they S. Cater (aged 24), In- I\Ir. and Mrs. Jno. Cater (aged 21), fired, and I saw my slniciing Keserves, St. Cater H.M.S. "Cam- had the order to stop tJogniael's Battery bridge," De\\_nport object iall. When I out all night as we e.\- went to see what it was pected to be attacked by

I found it to be a poor the Boers. So at seven old mule that had go( o'clockat night I thought loose. But 1 had shot I would t;ike Mr. Good- him right through the man out his jersey and head, and he was as a rug as it was very cold. i dead as a doornail. 1 I also took a feed of corn did not miss ni}' mark lor his horse. The first in the dark." thing that happened to me was that tlie horse THE LIVERPOOI.S INJ I was riding got into a LADVS.Miril hole and went down, Piu\'ate Thomas pitching me over his .Smith, of tlie Slii King's head, so I nearly swal- Liverpool Regiment, lowed my pipe. How- lately in Ladysmilh,— ever, I did not hurt my- writes as follows : self; but instead lost the "We have been be- road and was wandering sieged in Ladysmith forangloboerwar.com about on the veld in the four solid months, and dark for two hour:.. we could not write a Before I struck the track letter, as the lines were again I could sec _ the snlashcd up and no mail Boers' fires in the dis- could leave us, as we tance. 1 was going round were surrounded by the side of a hill when 30,000 Boers. We were all of a sudden somebody just on star\ing, living lired at me about twenty on two biscuits a dav. vards away. The bullet

They had to kill I hi' came whistling over my artillery hoi\sos to feed liead. You can bet I

us ; and also gave us was not long in shout- their corn. Hor;ei were ing, ' Don't lire, friend ! dropping dead with the When 1 got up to the hunger. We were re- chap I found that he was lieved by General Buller one of our own fellows. after a very hard fight, Will. Cater [aKc-J 2S). J. M. C.aei- (.l-ed 29) I. S. Caier (aa:ea 27), It appears that 1 had our troops completely P.O. ist el iss (lull. Warrant OlTloer, f'.O. 1st cUs-, H.M.S. been wandering about Instructor, H.M.S. H.M..S. "Cainbiidge,' "Conqueror," Uc\oa- smashing the Boers up. " Hannibal, Port til Devonport port between the Boers and The enemy made several our fellows —right across SE\'EN' SONS SER\TNC. IN THE NAVY attempts to get into their fronts. 1 was jolly In consideration of this remarkaole fact, Mrs. Cater, of Madeir.a I reckon. I might Ladysmith. We lost a Cottage, T.")rqiiay, bas rece-\'e 1 the gift of a £<^ note from tiie lucky, " lot of cur men with fever, (.)neen. They are," says Sir Fleetwood Kdvvards, writing in the have had a \olley into Queen's name, " sons of whom any mother might weU be proud." while killed, me, for our sentry had many were .Ml of them l)ear .an excellent chara'^ter. An eighth son is now almost brothers. and some captured. ready to join his sailor Hurrah for the lads of \y<^wo\\ I seen somebody riding Our casualties were over about, but happily lost 7,ooo in Lad\smitli there were |onlv g,ooo of us sight of him. I myself saw a inan riding in front of

l?ft. I got all your letters on the 4lh of NLarcli. me for a bit, and then disappeared, N-o doubt he was [ suppose you knew none could reach us until a Boer. You bet I v.ixs not long in ijctlini»- back to

\ve were relieved. I was overjoyed to get so-me the squ.adron." news from England, The Boe'rs do not like the

charge. 1 CO STEI.I.ENnOSCH ! bayonet have had some close shaves ; but, TO- Tiic thiuilc God ! I am alive and well, and enjo} ing my n-ew "Cin«URGicus" sends the following letter to life immense!}". A shell dropped right in our midst. Friend, the amusing little paper edited —by the war It went straight through out man wlio was just near! correspondents with Lord Roberts's lorce :

' I heard me, and, passing, killed four uid wounded two. One ^ " In the course of a lengthv experience have of my coniiaJvb had a leg and an ai'm shcc off, but he many quaint conceits and many hard swear words and — -; ;

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have kept a small note-book in which I ha\'c jolled by the tinK^wc return home laudanum is 1 no .n among " down anything- especially new. I was the unwilling us by any other name than ' R.K.'s Colic .Mixture.' auditor the other day of a quarrel between two indi- profession shall be nameless. C O RR ]•: S P O N D I-: N c !•: viduals whose rank and — The conversation became very animated, and finally C E. L. (Westminster) writes : " I bclie\c I am one exclaimed with savage irony, ' Oh, go to Stellen- correct in stating that INIajor .Man Hill, while

! bosch ' Fortunately some passers-by interrupted the serving in the 58111 Rutlandshire; (now 2nd North- fracas, or else I verily believe blows would have been amptonshire) Regiment at Laing's Nek, won the exchanged. Now^ you Sirs, with your opportunities of V.C. on January 28th-, 1881. .^lajor Hill is now seeing many lands and varied languages, may perhaps serving with the 1st Battalion in India." be able to inform me where this place is and why the C T. (). (Barrow-ni-Furnoss). —Thanks for your inte- request to go thei'e should have caused such fury and resting letter. We agree with you in describing such agitation on the part of the individual addressed. the old Houses of Parliament, in the street opposite It will be a relief to the consciences of her Majesty's Trinity College, Dublin, as perhaps the finest lieges if the time-honoured D can be relegated to the building in the Irish capital, and one of the most in such apparently' limbo of forgotten oaths favour of an artistic pieces of architecture in Europe. 1 iiinocent expression. I write in all innocence, as no "Britta."—You have humour, and write naturally. I man likes to use a phrase, especially such a patent one, Why not try your hand at a topical short story ? '' without understanding its meaning." H. I. (Belfast) and F. E. H. (Battersea).—Thanks for " [We belie\e that the place mentioned was located your letters. You will doubtless have noticed our somewhere in the Arctic Regions by the Jackson Expe- answers to other correspondents on this subject. " dition. Eds. J A. E. C. (Edinburgh) and J. T. (Wales).—We regret that, by a slip of the pen, the illustration which "k. K."s mixture" appeared as " Officers of the Cape Mounted We have an interesting glimpse of the Laureate of Infantry" in our issue of April 14th should have ' ^he Focces in his element in a letter written by Captain , read "Officer's of the Ceylon ..Mounted Infantry.

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J. Phillips, the gallant commander of the volunteer' .Ml credit is due to the gallant island for hcrfir.t, actne service company of the .South Wales Borderers example of loyalty. ; in South .Africa. He writes:—" On my journey to William Craigs (Linlithgow). —We should advise you| Beaufort West I happened to get into the same carriage to address your letters to the " Care of the Regi-' as Mr. Rudyard Kipling. He was not at all the sort ment, Regimental District No. 87, .\rmagh, Ire- of fellow you would imagine from the description of land." You should also give vour friend's rank and him in abortive attempts to get inter\-iews, and seemed lull name on the en\-elope, so that your letter may greatly interested in the volunteers in South .Africa. be at once forwarded to him, wherever he is. When we got to Fraserburg Road, where the company W. J. I. (Coventry).— The order of rank of the first of the Welsh are, he got out of the carriage, and was dozen officers now on active service is South .Africa immediately surrounded by about til'ty Tommies, and is approximately as follows: — (i) Field- Marshal seemed in his glory conversing with them. I never Lord Roberts, V.C, Commander-in-Chief of the saw such hero-worship as at Beaufort West. It had British in Africa Major-General Forces South ; (2) got out that he was travelling by that train, and the Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, Chief of the Staff whole of the town— old and young, white, black and (3) (General Bullei% V.C, General Officer Com- yellow— crowded in the station to get a glimpse of him. manding in Lieut. -General French, Natal ; (4) J. This morning I received a packet from him containing Commanding Division Lieut. -General Cavalrv ; (5) two bottles of laudanum, enough to go round the Sir Francis Clery, Commanding the Second Divi- company a dozen times. My opinion of him sion was ; (6) Lieut. -General Sir Hei-bert Chcrmside- always of the best, but it has gone up considerablv in Commanding the Division Lieut. Third ; (7) -^ consequence of his ihoughtfulness. 1 administered tin- (General Lyttelton, Commanding the Fourth Di\i, first dose of it this morning. When I told the man sion Lieut. Command-', ; (8) -General Kelly-Kenny, whom the medicine had come iVom liis e3'es gleam;'d ing the Sixth Division Lieut. -General Tucker, ; (q) with appreciation. For a moment 1 ihougi.t he had C?onunanding the Seventh Division; (10) Lieut. serious notions of preserving it, but he resisted the (j?neral .Sir H. Leslie-Rundle, Commanding the temptation, tossed olf the dose, saluted, about turned iMghlli Division; (ii) Lieut. -General Sir H. V.. i:i correct style, and stepped off, s(-emingly proud of the Colvile, Commanding- the Ninth Division ; ai^d colic which necessitated th;it dose. Shortlv alttr we (12) Lieut. -(jeneral .Sir .Archibald Hunter, Ccn-.- liC.srd a cliecr from the lines, a:id 1 shall Le surprised if mandint;- the Tenth Division. 102 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET May 12, 1900

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