Show HOUSE FLESH AS FOOD Hardships of Siege of Klmberloy is Told in a Letter I Correspondence Associated Press London March 21Thc Standards I correspondent at KImberley writing of I the hardships of the siege says For I many days the novelty of eating horse i llesh formed an agreeable break in the j I war talk Starving people however 1 tako kindly l to any article of food Personally I Per-sonally although I have always found a pl ce of succulent horseflesh excellent fating I am not taking any of It in I I ICimberley Not only arc the wretched animals reduced to skin and bone but them is a prevailing epidemic of influenza in-fluenza and cough among them which forces rne to abandon its useS use-S uIt Is however daily served out to tho soldiers as well as the people though there are many canes of anthrax an-thrax in the hospitals and an outbreak I of scurvy in many of the redoubts I There also is broken out peculiar form of throat trouble which may owe its origin to this article of food I Al 030 oclock in the evening all I I i conversation ceases and rumors stop 1 for by proclamation all lights except I electric or acetylene gas must be extinguished ex-tinguished There are many cases of extreme I suffering which although due to the siege I have reached a climax from constitutional con-stitutional circumstances There aie ladies tonight in Kimberley who are I strapped 1 to their bedsteads and wear ring tralghtjuckets mad from sheer i nervousness and fright It is the red I tape which makes the strain heavier thanIt would otherwise be After we had been for weeks shut up In Khnberley not at the best the most cheerful place in the universe our hearts became specifically fixed on our portion of the British armythe relief I I column By accident we learned that It had reached Modder river after a sharp engagement at Belmont Eagerly we awaited news from Lord Methuen Men and women scanned the horizon rrightjs to seek the first flash from his searchlight All night long our three searchlights sent their long streams of fiery light past the rugged fastnesses of Scholtzcs Nek jind the rocky kopjes of Spyfonteln to tilt two rivers on whose banks our preservers 1 were encamped Md Md Mdthmey called but no answer came Onlyjtho bis stars could be seen and the Southern Cross seemed to whisper VPatlJMicc1 At last one night far from the south came the welcome flash Kb Kb it said High up in the conning tower sat LieuLCol Kohowlch and his staff of officers with picked men from the signal I sig-nal corps Anxiously they deciphered the first message from their honored chief It was this Ascertain number on forefoot of mule omitted In Cape town return |