| Show HE SA THEY CUT COT A Highlander T elisor T Expo lenco lence at BLAME FOR FOIl noy 1301 O OFFICERS Troops for Their LITta ld situ sul d and Nil No h in Them London Jan ot of the Associated Pr account ot of the Modder river fight was wall received today trout one ot of the Argyle Argle and Sutherland Wo V have h had d seine hut lighting with Methuen but we got through nil all right until the tho eleventh when we got n a lick lag We or of the brigade had tl march durIn during the night to surprise the Yo No otto knew what we were to do or where we e Were goIng The rain came down In torrents and we were Ivere soaked through and that on I empty empt stomachs We were Into the Doer Beer trenches by guides gulde and I before wo we could deploy front column half ot of us were shot down Wo We nil all ran for tor our lives and ond reformed five hun bun hundred bundred dred yards back when the Gordons joIned us and we e again tried the trench ell Os Rut nut It was no good All day we 10 la lay layout out In the tho sun without toad food or drink anti In the afternoon the Boor Boer boo be beSan San gan bursting among us so 80 We the best belt or of our a to the rear Tile The men mell vore flick lck nod and there was no fight left In theta them and they not stop for tor the br tor or any one ela als I General Wauchope was In I seven cn 1 Places lie was the right sort fhe say It was not his mistake at all tad he dId ld not want the night attack Anyway It was a I ly failure The camp ot at Modder river was full tull or of hoer Boer and out our every movement was a watched and information carried to the enemy Why Vh these thelle people are allowed to inca about the I cannot canoot understand Some ot of these disloyal colonials have hac been heen caught fightIng against the tho Why lInt dont the they shoot hoot them right off oct instead of sending them down for tor dont deserve delfre it 11 of the tho regiments here are full tull ot of boys for tor and th men dont care caro about them I Sll saw some ot of them nt at Modder river light Uko Ilke a lot ot of school chool boys shouting out orders that none of us could understand so the old hands took no notice of them and went their own way as 08 best they could Most ot of the regiments are tho Fame pame The Tue guards are the but best oft art for tor officers None Nono ot of Us can make mke out why so many young oung laru aru sent lent out to take charge of oC old Why hy cant we ie have moro more ot of officers My late lato captain who left U us Itt at came cameto cameto to see us off art and We te lI asked ked why lh ho he was wall not comIng with us HI He replied that the war office would not let him rejoin lie was wal a tood man We Ve Should hould not have lost halt half the men 8 had bad It e had bad older elder officers We were II a god brigade If t q had hot ot been messed uP anti if chope hall had been left lett to handle us him hImself self lt Title ThIs Is n a terrible war and clod only oalY knows ho how It III end My H wound Id i not n a bad onea shot through the fleshy hy part ot of the thIgh and I 1 was so 80 excited I did not notice It for tor an hour or two |
