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Show hold, and I have every reason to think that It was uniformly ths same In every other. None of them even hinted at tha disastrous events which bad so lately befallen our army, in which young soldiers might have been prone to exult" Of-the services for the British soldiers sol-diers who lost their lives, Bayne says: "The ill fortuned vslor of the defeated de-feated was honored. General Llnlers, i at the head of his staff and the civil I corporation, attended the funeral of the fallen English officers. He wss I accompanied .by four battalions of the defenders, who saluted, with their arms and banners, the remains of those who had been their antagonists I a few days before." j Secretary Pays i i Tribute to Argenutines ! i By Charles P. Stewart j United Press Staff Correspondent. BUENOS AIRES. April 15 IBy Mailt. Everybody likes the genuine Argentine, dospite his faults. Those I who knock this new country do not : always bear in mind that 60 per cent I or more of the population are foreign-' foreign-' era and often have come from pretty I bad parts of Europe. Life here, as ' In any new country. Involves many I hardships. These points are brought l out In an article recently prepared toy , t". V. I'ayne, honorary secretary of the llrltlsh patriotic fund In Monte-video. Monte-video. Primarily. Secretary Payne's j ' purpose was to tell how warfare ourht ' to be but Is not conducted In Eu-i Eu-i rope now. Rather, bis artlclo is a i tribute to the Argentines, i .First the article tells of the ar-. rival of the British fleet which brought Ian exoeditlonary force to Argentina i in 106; nf Us capture of Buenos i Airps. and of the rlty's subsequent recovery re-covery bv the Argentines. j "It was only to be expected," says i Bayne. "that the young South Amerl-i Amerl-i can troops should. In the hour of vlo- tory. te accompanied by a crowd of i the less reputable of their fellow ' townsmen. After the fierce resistance resist-ance which ended in the surrender of i the rtritisli force, a mob of these free j i lances arrived in front of the castle still occupied by the foreigners snd. ; iii an .excess of zeal, opened firs ' on H. , , : "Upon this a young South Amerl-I Amerl-I can officer. ;'aptain Quintans, spirit-i spirit-i edly ascended the ramparts, where. ' throwing open his waistcoat and ex-I ex-I tending his arms, he seemed to offer I i himself s victim to the rage of the ! rabble and. by his expressive ges-! ges-! tures. rebuked their Indiscipline with i instantaneous effect." I ' Then Mavne tells of the case of 'Captain McKenzie, s severely wounded wound-ed British officer, who by mistake wss brought to the wrong billet, the house of Dona Escurras. , "The ladles." according to the article, ar-ticle, "observing his state, would not allow htm to move, but Insisted on his continuance under their roof until ! cured. It became a tedious process 1 of five months, during the whole of I which spare their attentions and hos-' hos-' pitality were unrelated snd unbound-i unbound-i ed and they consummated all by furnishing fur-nishing him with every comfort for ' his Journey up the country, whither : he was ordered upon the first symn-' symn-' toms of cdnvalesceVce. Every recom-; recom-; pense. however It was tendered, wss I noblv declined." ! Bayne quotes another -British au-! au-! thority of the time concerning the ! general treatment ef the British of-! of-! flosra after their surrender, referring especially to the family of sn Argeo-itine Argeo-itine named Terra da, a follows: j "i can attest ths tender delicacy shown bv every member of ths house-1 |