Show 1 4L 1 SHE to HUNDRED toi i i j t I tiW lleminispencesi off the fLight + s tj fi t 1t r 9 Brigade IiIU THE CHARGE AT BALAKLAYA t i A t I S f 5 Story of Pennant Ad veatBr la fort t t Crimea Told J r a V ete i taes SOB 1t t I4 a 4 Though heroism baa gone ontof fashion fash-ion nothing can be more Intresting than to hear from the lips of tome one i who knows the truth of wbat he speaks y reminiscences of these achievements of I t valor whose lame has passed into history his-tory Such an interest a reporter re-porter recently experienced infiitfiinp Mr J fen James who now reside IB the I Iwtuiietn Werd of this clly iuiu who arrived in America just a year ago from 1 I 1 England Mr James father George James of Pembroke England was one of the forty men who survived the famous charge of the Light Bnpude thi t loNe Six Hundred at Balaklava jl during tbe Crimean war of ISM Mr James died in 1882 and his dath was I fully chronicled throughout Englam J w I I i i A3 aBfltber Balaclava veteran gone I life decease left but two survivors out I 1 of te forty and one of ibpre baa slnre gone ever td the great majority HIa J eon who Is a young man of ungb 11 i 1 nea i and intelligence has a tore t r of entertaining anecdotes regarding hu 1 I father and of the part he took in the memorable cavalry charge and other I f battles during the Crimean campaign + I wellremember said Mr Janice I of bearing my father speak of the fear fnl slaughter inflicted on the Lih 1 Brigade in that memorable charge I They were 600 men picked for their J t stature their swordsmanship and their ability to manage their steeds They J were mostly mounted on gray horses Ii i and just before the moment of the i a charge they were drawn up prepared to retire The bugle sounded a retreat I wt BIU Haglan who commanded the ° r brigade was not at the head By some Y e 11 I i Mutate a young offic r cried out 1 Charge E lU 1 and in a moment the whole r j T r troop was careering over theplain by 6 whom they were led I no not remember J 1 but 600 of I having beard They were a I charging upon a height where there e were 6000 Russians strongly entrenched J f r en-trenched Vita cannon with more con t I atantly arriving from the rear What I II I a terrible mistake jhad been made not no-t 1 men of course stopped to consider s r Yea of course remember the line In i C Eli I I Tennysons famous poem Forward the LJgnt igtdel tkeeeee amac t t 1 t tI Wet tbere a mas dtasavdr l I We-t Xot though tbeoldler knew I I I 8eeoeekadblasderd t Ii helm 21Gt to u tJte leply I > n uTalri not to real on why a I BBftodoaaddle d a Isto UM valley of death S I XckJe ilxauodtec I I have heard my father say that he i I never fully realised blander such C t t waa tile apqed of the charge the rattle C it 1I of be accoutrements the roar of the i cameos In i front of them that he had no e 1 I timeto thmTr oI anything Saddles ii wer e empty pg ana meta tumbfangall f I and ncl him but a good force reached I 1 the Banians and eo fierce 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